Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

AvLisa Bogerts

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this “aesthetics of resistance” is also employed by political and economic elites for their own purposes, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish from the “aesthetics of rule.” Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:514 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Protest, Culture & Society
Antal sidor:348
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781805397397

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lisa Bogerts is a Berlin-based political scientist, researcher, and editor. Her work focuses on political conflict and protest, visual communication, artistic activism, and power relations.

Recensioner i media

“This book will be an important intervention into the study of street art in particular, and of public art and artistic activism in general. The author approaches the subject with the rare combination of a scholar’s critical intellect and an artist’s aesthetic eye.” • Stephen Duncombe, New York University“An excellent book that captures the agency of street art interventions. The clear and innovative research methods represent a significant step forward in visual methodology, offering a lucid account of how to understand visual communication.” • Aidan McGarry, Loughborough University

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Political Power, Visual Communication, and Public SpaceChapter 1. From Conceptualizing to Analyzing Visual Power and ResistanceChapter 2. Street Art: A Medium of Visual Political CommunicationChapter 3. Setting the Scene: Street Art in Latin American Urban SpaceChapter 4. Buenos Aires: “Latin America – Now or Never”Chapter 5. Mexico City: “Another World is Possible” – Democracy, Freedom, JusticeChapter 6. Caracas: “El Comandante” is PresentChapter 7. Bogotá: “Exploitation Ruins Life”Chapter 8. Across the Cities: Strategies of Visual Meaning-MakingConclusions: “The Media Are Theirs, the Walls Are Ours”ReferencesAppendix A: Shooting Script for the Photo-DocumentationAppendix B: Image Descriptions and Image Sections/Composition from the Detailed AnalysesAppendix C: Code Frequencies