Sabotage Art

Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Sophie Halart, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, UK) Halart, Sophie (University College London, UK) Ezcurra, Mara Polgovsky (Birkbeck, University of London

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Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an artistic strategy most notably in Latin America. In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art.Sabotage Art reveals how contemporary Latin American artists have resorted to sabotage strategies as a means to bridge the gap between aesthetics and politics. The global status of and market for Latin American art is growing rapidly. This book is essential reading for those who want to understand this new, dissident work, as well as its mystification, co-option and commercialization within current academic historiographies and art-world curatorial initiatives.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-30
Mått212 x 138 x 16 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350276611

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Sophie Halart is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago de Chile and a Teaching Fellow at University College London, UK, where she received her PhD on contemporary women artists in the Southern Cone.Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra is Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and received her PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK.

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra and Sophie HalartPart I: Ensnaring, Burning, Trespassing: Material Sabotage1. Marta Minujin’s Self-Sabotage: From Existentialism to Counterculture Catherine Spencer2. Shaman, Thespian, Saboteur: Marcos Kurtycz and the Ritual Poetics of Iconoclasm Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra3. Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems, and Self-Immolation in Mexico: Dissensus in the work of Enrique Guzmán and Nahum B. Zenil Erica Segre4. Bureaucratic Sabotage: Knocking at the door of the ‘Big Monster’ Zanna GilbertPart II: Cannons and Canons: Explosive vs. Implosive Postures 5. Cogs and Clogs: Sabotage as Noise in Post-1960s Chilean and Argentine Art and Art History Sophie Halart6. Impossible Objects: Gabriel Orozco’s Empty Shoe Box and Yielding Stone Natasha Adamou 7. El Museo de la Calle. Art, Economy and the Paradoxes of Bartering Olga Fernández López 8. Stay at Your Own Risk: Disturbing Ideas of Community in Two Projects by Elkin Calderón Carla Macchiavello 9. ‘The Space of Appearance’: Performativity and Aesthetics in the Politicization of Mexico’s Public Sphere Robin GreeleyNotesIndex

Nelly Richard once commented on the difficulty of reading the politics of Latin American contemporary art abroad without reducing the works to a testimonial function or, alternatively, stripping them of their incisive concreteness. This wonderful collection speaks to the emergence of a critical discourse on Latin American art that manages to hold form and politics not just in the balance but to read one through the other: a truly groundbreaking achievement.