Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781784532253 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str.

Sophie Halart; Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra

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Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America provides a welcome shift of emphasis in amidst perennial redefinitions of political art in Latin America. Framing sabotage as a positional choice with regard to the institution allows Halart, Polgovsky Ezcurra and their collaborators to critically interrogate the longstanding association of Latin American art with struggle or adversity for both historical case studies and the market delirium over contemporary art. This book makes for an excellent teaching resource on overlooked artists such as Paulo Bruscky, Enrique Guzma n, Marcos Kurtycz, and Edgardo Antonio Vigo, offers fresh examinations of canonized avant-gardes in Argentina and Chile, and considers recent participatory projects in Bogota and Mexico City. Yet it is most valuable in the sum total of its discrete chapters, which together demonstrate a range of new methods for a field now hitting its stride."