The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina

ISBN-13: 9780415717335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 170 str.

Vikki Bell

Opis

Since the end of the last dictatorship in 1983, Argentina's visual artists and art-activists have been central to campaigns to demand the criminal prosecution of those initially granted amnesty and to a variety of commemorative projects. In The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina Vikki Bell examines this involvement and intervention. She argues that the problematics that arise within the aesthetic realm cannot be understood solely through an art-historical approach; instead, they must be understood as a constitutive part of a broader collective endeavour. In this sense, the 'art' of post-dictatorship is not something that belongs to art or the artists themselves, but is about how the subjectivities and imaginations of new generations are constituted and entwined with questions of response, ethics and justice. It concerns how people align themselves between the past and the future. This book will be an invaluable resource for those studying the law, politics, art and sociology of contemporary Argentina as well as those concerned more widely with transitional justice and the politics of memory.

Spis treści

Chapter One Introduction: Between Past and Future, the Art of Post-Dictatorship,  Chapter Two On Fernando’s Photograph: Bio-politics, Aparición and the Demands of the Disappeared,  Chapter Three Writing to the General, and Other Aesthetic Practices of Critique: The Art of León Ferrari as a Practice of Freedom,  Chapter Four Re-turning the Past: The ESMA Trial and Affective Architecture at the ‘Space of Memory’,  Chapter Five Missed Appointments: Ethics at the Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires,  Chapter Six The Invitation to Imagine: Addressing Photography in Córdoba,  Chapter Seven Absence and Vigilance: The Artwork of Diana Dowek and Lucila Quieto,  Bibliography,  Index

O autorze

Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London