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Erina Duganne - Dreams of a Continent, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Dreams of a Continent

Artists' Solidarity with Central America

Av Erina Duganne

582 kr

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A biography of Artists Call, an influential 1980s artist group that protested US intervention in Latin America.The 1980s saw the flourishing of neoliberalism in all realms of culture. In the fine arts, libertarian individualism, media sensationalism, and profit motive converged in million-dollar auctions—and a widespread insistence that activism had no place in the arts. Yet even some participants of this elite New York art world resisted. Dreams of a Continent tells the forgotten story of a diverse collective that defied culture-industry norms by condemning Reagan-era imperialism in Latin America while building transnational solidarity.Drawing on fresh archival discoveries, Erina Duganne reconstructs the political imagination of Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America. A network with more than a thousand members in New York City, Artists Call produced thirty-one exhibitions in its brief life, along with poetry readings and performances that brought together US and Latin American cultural workers in support of self-determination throughout the hemisphere. This richly illustrated volume shows how the aesthetics of Artists Call emphasized historical contingency in order to envision radically alternative futures. In the process, its activism fostered a global community that overcame stark North-South power imbalances.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-12
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN: 9781477335123
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Erina Duganne is a professor of art history at Texas State University. She is the author of The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography, coauthor of Global Photography: A Critical History, and coeditor of Cold War Camera. Duganne's writing has appeared in The Art Bulletin, Photography & Culture, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, photographies, and English Language Notes.

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"In this tour de force of socially engaged art history, Duganne illuminates how a vast and diverse group of artists came together in 1980s New York to denounce US intervention in Central America. Her analysis of the wide-ranging forms and exhibition strategies of artists working in transnational solidarity, from Hans Haacke and Nancy Spero to Jesús Romeo Galdámez, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, and Clarissa Sligh, radically expands the narrow channels in which the decade's art has been confined. Duganne shows how Artists Call's efforts matter for contemporary artists including Muriel Hasbun and Beatriz Cortez, in ways that will matter for students of art and art history alike." - Jennifer Josten, University of Pittsburgh, author of Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico

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