Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America - Couverture souple

Cornejo, Kency

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478030542 ISBN 13 : 9781478030546

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2024

Synopsis

In Visual Disobedience, Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Cornejo reveals a direct line from US intervention to current forms of racial, economic, and gender injustice in the isthmus, connecting this to the criminalization and incarceration of migrants at the US-Mexico border today. Drawing on interviews with Central American artists and curators, she theorizes a form of "visual disobedience" in which art operates in opposition to nation-states, colonialism, and visual coloniality. She counters historical erasure by examining over eighty artworks and highlighting forty artists across the region. Cornejo also rejects the normalized image of the suffering Central American individual by repositioning artists as creative agents of their own realities. With this comprehensive exploration of contemporary Central American art, Cornejo highlights the role of visual disobedience as a strategy of decolonial aesthetics to expose and combat coloniality, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, empire, and other systems of oppression.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kency Cornejo is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478030542
• ISBN 13: 9781478030546
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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