Contemporary art and community altruism in Oaxaca : hybrid agency / by Neil Pyatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pyatt, Neil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--History--21st century.

Art and society.

Art, Mexican--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--21st century.

Art, Mexican.

Altruism--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--History--21st century.

Altruism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 198 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This book relates the longitudinal participant observation and analysis of the behaviour of the Oaxacan art community, focusing on the cultural production, interaction and collective action of its members as an integrated sector of civil society.It presents a theoretical framework that succinctly defines and discusses postmodernism as a globalising force in the development and use of creative expression, the media and communications technology in a postcolonial context. The theoretical investigation is supported by ethnography that ascertains how hybrid political thought and community altruism characterise the behaviour and the aesthetic expression practised by a new generation of Oaxacan artists. Their collective action towards a pacifistic solution to the Oaxaca Conflict of 2006, a six-month socio-political uprising caused by actual and historic conditions in the national, regional and universal Left-Right political duel, is detailed.The transdisciplinary approach makes the work very relevant for researchers, educators and students of social anthropology, visual communication and media studies, in addition to those interested in Oaxacan, Mexican and Latin American art and culture.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Chapter One

1.1 A postmodern ethnography

1.2 Postmodernism as an analytical framework

1.3 Postmodernism in Latin America

1.4 Postmodern postcoloniality in Oaxaca, Mexico

Chapter Two

2.1 Politicisation

2.2 The 1980s and 1990s: Sundown at the Utopia Factory

2.3 The contingent structure of Oaxacan art

Chapter Three

3.1 New Oaxacan contemporary art

3.2 Demián Flores Cortés: the hybrid

3.3 Soid Pastrana: the postmodern primitivist

3.4 Cultural promotion as a capital strategy

Chapter Four

4.1 Conflict art from Oaxaca

4.2 A non-artistic response: Francisco Toledo and the Oaxaca Conflict

4.3 A postmodern, globalised Oaxaca

Chapter Five

Bibliography

Appendix I

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-2717-4

OCLC:

1084475124