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Visual disobedience : art and decoloniality in Central America / Kency Cornejo.
Fine Arts Library N6560.2 .C67 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornejo, Kency, author.
- Series:
- Dissident acts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Central American--Political aspects.
- Art, Central American.
- Art, Central American--Social aspects.
- Art and social action--Central America.
- Art and social action.
- Art and society--Central America.
- Art and society.
- Politics and culture--Central America.
- Politics and culture.
- Postcolonialism and the arts--Central America.
- Postcolonialism and the arts.
- Decolonization in art.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Visual Disobedience offers a contemporary art history of post-war Central America that draws on decolonial and anti-colonial notions of aesthetics and artistic expression. Using examples of art and creativity to draw out the experiences of artists within and across borders, Kency Cornejo dismantles discourses of invisibility that obscure Central American art worlds. Starting with the late 1990s, Cornejo creates a panorama of art, politics, and decolonial strategies, using the framework of "visual disobedience" across the book's chapters to address historical repression, from Indigenous genocide, femicide, and anti-LGBTQ violence, to mass migration and captivity. The book utilizes this framework as a tool for comprehending art as revolutionary praxis against the backdrop of recent mass exoduses from the region and U.S. anti-immigration policy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Against visual coloniality
- Semillas : art and indigenous defiance in Guatemala
- A creative turn to the body : feminist dissonance and erotic autonomy in Central American art
- Shifting the border : Central American art against the war on mobility
- "Los Siempre Sospechosos de Todo" : art on criminalization, prisons, and social cleansing in Central America
- Conclusion: Visual disobedience and art histories otherwise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-269) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cornejo, Kency. Visual disobedience.
- ISBN:
- 9781478030546
- 1478030542
- 9781478026334
- 1478026332
- OCLC:
- 1416892325
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