| Description |
1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Writing the body -- Lamentations -- Touch, ethics, and history -- Nudities -- Ritual and/of violence -- Cybernetics and face-off play. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. WRITING THE BODY -- 2. LAMENTATIONS -- 3. TOUCH, ETHICS, AND HISTORY -- 4. NUDITIES -- 5. RITUAL AND/OF VIOLENCE -- 6. CYBERNETICS AND FACE-OFF PLAY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Performance art -- Latin America.
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Performance art. |
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Latin America. |
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Body art -- Latin America.
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Body art. |
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Art and society -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and society. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Art -- Political aspects -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
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Art -- Political aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Performance art. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ezcurra, Mara Polgovsky. Touched Bodies : The Performative Turn in Latin American Art. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2019 9781978802032 |
| ISBN |
9781978802063 (electronic book) |
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1978802064 (electronic book) |
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9781978802025 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781978802032 (hc-plc ; alkaline paper) |
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9781978802056 |
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1978802021 |
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