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The political body : stories on art, feminism, and emancipation in Latin America / Andrea Giunta ; translated by Jane Brodie.
LIBRA N72.F45 G5813 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giunta, Andrea, author.
- Series:
- Studies on Latin American art ; v. 6.
- Studies on Latin American art; volume 6
- Standardized Title:
- Feminismo y arte latinoamericano English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism and art--Political aspects--Latin America--20th century.
- Feminism and art.
- Female nude in art--Political aspects.
- Female nude in art.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 285 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This book discusses how some works of art produced in Latin America in the sixties, seventies, and eighties forged a different understanding of the female body, understood as space for the expression of a dissident subjectivity in relation to socially normalized places. Representations of art and of feminist activism interrogated the disciplining of the female body that entails as well the disciplining of the male body. Before a history of highly regulated artistic representations-regardless of the occasional exceptions a historian might point out-images erupted that questioned the social and institutional naturalization of the feminine and the masculine"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Art and feminism: politics of representation
- Artists between activisms: Clemencia Lucena and María Luisa Bemberg
- a comparative study
- A portrait in absentia: Narcisa Hirsch and experimental film in Buenos Aires
- Feminist arts in Mexico: manifestos, lectures, exhibitions, and activisms
- Archives, performance, and resistance: Nelbia Romero and art from Uruguay under dictatorship
- Feel, despite everything: Paz Errázuriz, photography and dictatorship in Chile
- Black art is Brasil: Rosana Paulino: archives, and memory of slavery
- Conclusion: art and feminism in Argentina now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520344327
- 0520344324
- OCLC:
- 1334727307
- Publisher Number:
- 99993855820
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