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Edited by Gerardo Mosquera
Institute of International Visual Arts (iniVA)
ISBN 1 899846 00 X
The book is a selection of important critical and
theoretical essays about the topics (among others):
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visual arts, social-cultural situation and popular culture in Latin America |
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Afro-American identity in the caribbean art |
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art and culture of Latin American origen in the USA |
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discussions on Modernity and Postmodernity in Latin America |
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the relationship Center - Periphery |
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Women's art practices in Chile |
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international circulation of the art from Latin America |
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the "export" of a multicultural paradigma coming from the USA |
In English, with essays by:
Néstor García
Canclini, Andrea Giunta, Paulo Herkenhoff, Mirko Lauer, Ticio
Escobar, Pierre Bocquet, Gerardo Mosquera, Nelly Richard, Luis
Camnitzer, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Guillermo Gómez-Peña,
George Yúdice, Carolina Ponce de León, Mari Cármen
Ramírez, Mónica Amor, Celeste Olalquiaga, Gabriel
Peluffo Linari, Gustavo Buntinx, Mirko Lauer
"This book is a selection of new theoretical discourses on the visual arts in Latin America, dealing with the critical thought characteristics of the 1980s, which is still current today. They constitute a distinctive corpus of writing, a revision of the prevailing paradigms from the early 1960s when Marta Traba published the first book to approach Latin American art in a global manner, attempting to give the subject some conceptual unity. This established a Latin Americanist social theory of art that, although diverse and often polemical, discussed the particularities of Latin American art in relation to culture and society, and which lasted for two decades. The authors included in this book are products of this process, but they reposition it in accordance with the demands of a new period and within the framework of a critique of modernity and of the end of a tragic utopia."
(from the introduction by Gerardo Mosquera)
See the review by Gerhard Haupt
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