Sabotage art : politics and iconoclasm in contemporary Latin America /: politics and iconoclasm in contemporary Latin America. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sophie Halart and Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra.
• Editors: Halart, Sophie; Polgovsky Ezcurra, Mara
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Endorsement; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Images; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; Part I Material Sabotage: Ensnaring, Burning, Trespassing; 1 Entrap, Engulf, Overwhelm; 'Laying Traps and Dangling Baits'; Subjects into Objects; Countercultural Carnival; References; 2 Shaman, Thespian, Saboteur; Potlatch; A System of Giving; Letter Bombing; Serialized Incineration; &#x; by Way of Proximity; References; 3 Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems and Self-Immolation in Mexico; I. Insubordination; II. Decorum III. Self-ImmolationIV. Sabotage; The Poetics of the Razor Blade; ¡Oh Santa Bandera!: Civic Decorum, Disrespect and Dissensus; Coda: `The same indocile innocence'; References; 4 Bureaucratic Sabotage; Systems Art and Bureaucratic Systems; The Big Monster; Tactic I: Trickery and Stealth; Tactic II: Ridicule, Jam and Infest the System; Tactic III: Disruption and Overidentification; Administered Society and the Body; References; Part II Cannons and Canons: Explosive vs. Implosive Postures; 5 Cogs and Clogs; Interrupted Flows: Neo-Avant-Garde Art in Chile and Argentina Political Orthodoxy and Committed ArtistsArgentine Mass Media Art and (Anti-)Happenings; CADA and the Chilean Escena de Avanzada; Latin American Conceptualism: Sabotaging Art History?; The Saboteur Saboté or the Limits of Art as Subversive Practice; The End of Mass Media Art and Tucumán Arde; NO +; Conceptualism, Inc.; Global Art and Local Re-Readings; References; 6 Impossible Objects; Empty Shoe Box; Yielding Stone; The Found Object; Surrealist Legacies in Latin America; References; 7 El Museo de la Calle ; Bartering at El Cartucho From the Aesthetics of Hunger to the Aestheticization of PovertyCollecting, Representing: Paths and Diversions; References; 8 Stay at Your Own Risk; A Participative Community Can Be Risky as Well&#x;; References; 9 'The Space of Appearance'; References; Index
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 701/.03; Art -- Political aspects -- Latin America; Iconoclasm in art; Radicalism in art; Art -- Political aspects; Iconoclasm in art; Radicalism in art; ART / General; Latin America; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857729132; 0857729136; 0857727087; 9780857727084
• Related ISBNs: 9781784532253; 1784532258; 9780857727084
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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