Beyond the paint and ink: ASAR Oaxaca resistance and getting up Arte Pal Pueblo

This thesis aims to address the ways in Oaxacan street artists frame alternative realities within art and interviews about their art. Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca or ASARO, is a revolutionary artist collective that currently works in Oaxaca Mexico. They place their art in publically accessible areas and comment on local, national and international social issues. Through ethnographic interviews and participant observation with members of ASARO along with critical discourse analysis of their images, I explore the ways getting up is accomplished. The combination of ethnographic field work paired with a critical approach deepens an understanding of what influences modern communication production through art in a marginalized area of Mexicos periphery. In this thesis ideas of art as transformative, legible, accessible are explored. Also Mexican local and global issues such as immigration, iconography, collective action, women's and human rights, exploitation of workers and natural resources are also analyzed within images created by ASARO.

Name thesis:degree_name

Latin American Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Latin American Studies

Year

2014

Author dc:creator

• Graham De La Rosa, Mike L

Contributors dc:contributor

• Washington, Myra
• Covarrubias, Patricia
• Barnet-Sanchez, Holly

• Mexico
• Oaxaca (State)
• Graffiti
• Printmaking
• 21st Century Movements
• Indigenous Movements
• Political Violence
• Social Justice
• Youth Culture

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ltam_etds/5

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:ltam_etds-1004