Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Lisa Bogerts

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Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this “aesthetics of resistance” is also employed by political and economic elites for their own purposes, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish from the “aesthetics of rule.” Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-03-11
Mått152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt636 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieProtest, Culture & Society
Antal sidor348
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781800731493

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Political Power, Visual Communication, and Public SpaceChapter 1. From Conceptualizing to Analyzing Visual Power and ResistanceChapter 2. Street Art: A Medium of Visual Political CommunicationChapter 3. Setting the Scene: Street Art in Latin American Urban SpaceChapter 4. Buenos Aires: “Latin America – Now or Never”Chapter 5. Mexico City: “Another World is Possible” – Democracy, Freedom, JusticeChapter 6. Caracas: “El Comandante” is PresentChapter 7. Bogotá: “Exploitation Ruins Life”Chapter 8. Across the Cities: Strategies of Visual Meaning-MakingConclusions: “The Media Are Theirs, the Walls Are Ours”ReferencesAppendix A: Shooting Script for the Photo-DocumentationAppendix B: Image Descriptions and Image Sections/Composition from the Detailed AnalysesAppendix C: Code Frequencies

“This book will be an important intervention into the study of street art in particular, and of public art and artistic activism in general. The author approaches the subject with the rare combination of a scholar’s critical intellect and an artist’s aesthetic eye.” • Stephen Duncombe, New York University“An excellent book that captures the agency of street art interventions. The clear and innovative research methods represent a significant step forward in visual methodology, offering a lucid account of how to understand visual communication.” • Aidan McGarry, Loughborough University