Ephemeral histories public art, politics, and the struggle for the streets in Chile Camilo D. Trumper

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trumper, Camilo D., 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects--Chile.

Art.

Politics in art.

Politics in motion pictures.

Art--Political aspects.

Chile.

Genre:

Electronic books

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California University of California Press [2016]

Summary:

"Politics under Salvador Allende was a battle fought in the streets. Everyday attempts to 'ganar la calle' allowed a wide range of urban residents to voice potent political opinions. Santiaguinos marched through the streets chanting slogans, seized public squares, and plastered city walls with graffiti, posters, and murals. Urban art might only last a few hours or a day before being torn down or painted over, but such activism allowed a wide range of city dwellers to participate in the national political arena. These popular political strategies were developed under democracy, only to be reimagined under the Pinochet dictatorship. Ephemeral Histories places urban conflict at the heart of Chilean history, exploring how marches and protest, posters and murals, documentary film and street photography, became the basis of a new form of political change in Latin America in the late twentieth century"--Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction : the politics of the street

Of spoons and other political things : the design of socialist citizenship

Streets, citizenship, and the politics of gender in Allende's Chile

A ganar la calle : the October strike and the struggle for the streets

Political palimpsests : posters, murals, and the ephemeral practice of urban politics

The politics of place in the "cinema of Allende"

Conclusion : the image of a coup foretold : violence, visual regimes, and clandestine public spheres

Epilogue : ephemeral histories : erasure and the persistence of politics

Notes:

Print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version Trumper, Camilo D., 1977- Ephemeral histories

ISBN:

9780520964303

0520964306

9780520422711

0520422716

OCLC:

951809434