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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Latin American Art"”.
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The Aesthetics of Resistance in Latin American Art in Canada
This dissertation examines contemporary art by Latin American diaspora artists in Canada, focusing on artworks that address trauma, displacement, feminist resistance, and anti-colonial perspectives in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and British Colombia. While drawing on extensive artists' …
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Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
… investigates how non-academic agents (i.e. artists, curators, and institutions) helped construct the current canon of Latin American art. It takes as case studies key exhibitions held in Brazil in order to examine how the central concepts of anthropophagy, geometric abstraction, and the …
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Import/export : raw materials, hemispheric expertise, and the making of Latin American art, 1933-1945
Historians have tended to characterize Latin American art either as a self-evident term or as a category designated by U.S. institutions. This dissertation argues instead that artists from the region were agents in shaping this emerging field through their selective cooperation with, and resistance …
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The art songs of Jaime León: a textual and musical analysis
The thirty-six art songs of Colombian composer Jaime León (b. 1921) represent an important addition to the art song repertory. Chapter 1 introduces the topic and the literature on Jaime León and Latin American art song. Jaime León's biography forms Chapter 2, including his training as a pianist and …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
… in Mexico City, exercised by a collective of artists driven by collaboration, intermediality, and experimentation, as an alternative to Muralism. In reevaluating the 1960s generation of artists, historically assessed by their rejection of social realism, this project highlights their evolving …
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From the Edge: the Littoral in Visual and Literary Imaginaries of Mexico
The word littoral/*litoral* derives from the Latin *litor*, meaning ‘of or pertaining to the shore’ (OED). It entered usage in the mid-seventeenth century and has since accumulated a variety of referents, some cartographically or ecologically specific, others symbolic. The ‘littoral zone’ has most …
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The International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Modernism in the Age of African Decolonization and Black Power
<p>Two competing artistic representations of Brazilian blackness emerged from 1966 to 1988. The first began in 1966 when the Brazilian government positioned itself as a leading diplomatic partner for newly independent African nations by showcasing black Brazilian art in West Africa. Through …
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"Systems and feedback: Cildo Meireles's ""Insertions into Ideological Circuits"", 1970-ongoing"
In 1970, Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles began a series of artworks, commonly grouped under the title Insertions into Ideological Circuits, which has since become emblematic of a Latin American art often termed “ideological conceptualism.” This dissertation problematizes the limits of this …
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The politics of display: identity and state at the San Juan Print Biennial, 1970-1981
… study of the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano (BSJ, 1970-2001) of Puerto Rico, and its reincarnation as the Poly/Graphic Triennial (2004 - Present). As the Caribbean’s first art biennial, the creation of the BSJ was not only innovative, but also a strategic, bold project on the …
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Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico
<p>Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Mexican artists employed art interventions in commercial galleries, cultural institutions, and city streets to facilitate a renegotiation of the role of art (and the artist) in society. The art intervention, a mode of conceptualism, served to circumvent traditional …
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Embodied Dissent: Exploring the Activist Turn in Contemporary Cuban Art
… son los derechos de los escritores y de los artistas, revolucionarios o no revolucionarios? Dentro de la Revolución, todo; contra la Revolución, ningún derecho’. These words have permeated the Cuban art scene ever since, with some artists choosing to work within Castro’s prescribed ideals and …
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Mundos comunes
Vor dem Hintergrund unterschiedlicher Bewegungen und künstlerischer Dialoge in den siebziger und achtziger Jahren, stellt ihre Doktorarbeit den Begriff des „Lateinamerikanischen“ auf dem Gebiet der Kunst und Kultur in Frage. Über eine „sammelnde Reise“ von Spuren, Zeichen und Fährten durch …
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Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1973–1982
… considers the work of a group of women artists in Brazil during the period of the military dictatorship (1964–1985), working in the genre of “performance-for-camera” (i.e., performance for film and video, rather than for a live audience). The artists are Lygia Pape (1927–2004), Letícia …
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Sanctuary: The-Construction of Communion
… narrates the development of the multimedia art installation called <em>Sanctuary. </em>I unwrap the theoretical background of my practice, which is rooted in the theories of deconstruction by Jacques Derrida, and the rhizome theory by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I approach my creative …