Alfredo Jaar

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Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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In Alfredo Jaar, the first critical academic survey devoted to the prominent Chilean-born artist, Florencia San Martín shows how his work takes up mourning, accountability, and failure, offering a new model for how to think about global contemporary art today.In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martín analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity that obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. San Martín argues that Jaar’s work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of the violent systems we inhabit. His art, she maintains, is informed by and responds to two interconnected historical events relevant to his own life: the US-backed military coup that established Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile and the implementation around the world of the corollary neoliberal economic system. San Martín explores the key themes in Jaar’s artistic practice—mourning, accountability, and failure—which situates the victims of the Chilean regime in a global context, directly confronts the architects of atrocity, and questions how ideas of diversity and inclusion have been co-opted by modern neoliberal discourses. Alfredo Jaar enables us to reimagine art history, offering a fresh paradigm with which to think about global contemporary art.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-08-14
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagDuke University Press
MedarbetareWolfgang Kaleck
ISBN9781478038788

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Konsthistoria inom Kultur
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List of Illustrations ixForeword: Vivimos Adentro, Pero en Contra / Wolfgang Kaleck xiiiIntroduction. Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished 1Representing Decolonial Time 4The Ongoing Neoliberal Present 12Hemispheric and Global Entanglements 20Exercises of Memory 351. Mourning 46Stanzas of Remembrance 49Urgent Solidarities 62Images of Existence 67Grief Uprising 752. Accountability 88An Imperial Handshake 91Politics of Images 102Representation and Liability 115Time and Crime 1283. Failure 136Reenactments 137Combat Zones 146Liberation 156Revolution 163Conclusion. The End of the World 172Acknowledgments 197Notes 203Bibliography 231Index 251

“It is rare that an artist whose work is deeply committed to sociopolitical issues receives detailed attention to that element rather than glancing references to alert the viewer. Alfredo Jaar is not only a globally important visual artist but a savvy and brilliant commentator/participant in the content at the heart of his work. In this book—as potentially groundbreaking as Jaar’s art—Florencia San Martín offers a dense, detailed, and intelligent analysis of the art and its crucial political contexts, opening up Jaar’s visual oeuvre to its real significance in and beyond the world of art.”—Lucy R. Lippard, writer, art critic, activist, and curator“Florencia San Martín provides a compelling argument for Alfredo Jaar as a powerful guide through the practices of decolonial art made within today’s repressive neoliberal regimes. Grounded in over a decade of interviews with one of the leading voices in contemporary art, this study envelopes the reader in Jaar’s urgent questions about social justice and state violence, migration and exile, happiness and loss.”—Esther Gabara, author of Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism