Kency Cornejo

Visual Disobedience

Art and Decoloniality in Central America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on interviews with Central American artists and curators, Kency Cornejo theorizes a form of â visual disobedienceâ 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.

Produktdetails

• Dissident Acts
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030546
• ISBN-10: 1478030542
• Artikelnr.: 69739553

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. Against Visual Coloniality  1
1. Semillas: Art and Indigenous Defiance in Guatemala  35
2. A Creative Turn to the Body: Feminist Dissonance and Erotic Autonomy in
Central American Art  78
3. Shifting the Border: Central American Art against the War on Mobility 
132
4. “Los Siempre Sospechosos de Todo”: Art on Criminalization, Prisons, and
Social Cleansing in Central America  177
Conclusion. Visual Disobedience and Art Histories Otherwise  231
Notes  239
Bibliography  257
Index  271