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Touched Bodies : The Performative Turn in Latin American Art / Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) : 27 b-w images, 13 colorContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978802025
  • 9781978802063
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.040752 23
LOC classification:
  • NX456.5.P38 P65 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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