Touched bodies: the performative turn in Latin American art
Polgovsky Ezcurra, Mara (2019) Touched bodies: the performative turn in Latin American art. New Jersey, U.S.: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978802025.
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Abstract
Book synopsis: What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? In Touched Bodies, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy. Based on original documents and innovative readings, her book brings politics and ethics to the discussion of artistic developments during the “long 1980s”. She describes the rise of performance art in the context of feminism, HIV-activism, and human right movements, taking a close look at the work of Diamela Eltit and Raúl Zurita from Chile, León Ferrari and Liliana Maresca from Argentina, and Marcos Kurtycz, the No Grupo art collective, and Proceso Pentágono from Mexico. The comparative study of the work of these artists attests to a performative turn in Latin American art during the 1980s that, like photography and film before, recast the artistic field as a whole, changing the ways in which we perceive art and understand its role in society.
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| Item Type: | Book |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Performance, Latin American Art, Intermediality, Diamela Eltit, Raúl Zurita, León Ferrari, Liliana Maresca, Marcos Kurtycz, Proceso Pentágono, No Grupo, Mexico, Chile, Argentina |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Dr Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2019 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:46 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25043 |
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