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Sabotage art : politics and iconoclasm in contemporary Latin America

Contributor(s): Series: International library of modern and contemporary art ; 28.Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2016Copyright date:  ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780857729132
  • 0857729136
  • 0857727087
  • 9780857727084
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N72.P6 S236 2016eb
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Contents:
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; ... by Way of Proximity; References; 3 Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems and Self-Immolation in Mexico; I. Insubordination; II. Decorum.
Summary: Sabotage: deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet sabotage has also become an artistic strategy - most notably in Latin America. Artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art. 'Sabotage art' reveals how contemporary Latin American artists have resorted to 'sabotage' strategies to bridge the gap between aesthetics and politics, and seeks to understand the mystification, cooption and commercialisation of this new, dissident work.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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; ... 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 ... ; References; 9 'The Space of Appearance'; References; Index.

Sabotage: deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet sabotage has also become an artistic strategy - most notably in Latin America. Artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art. 'Sabotage art' reveals how contemporary Latin American artists have resorted to 'sabotage' strategies to bridge the gap between aesthetics and politics, and seeks to understand the mystification, cooption and commercialisation of this new, dissident work.

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