The political body : stories on art, feminism, and emancipation in Latin America
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Giunta Andrea (1960-....) ; Brodie Jane ;
- ISBN : 978-0-520-34432-7, 0-520-34432-4
- Sujets : Féminisme et art -- Aspect politique -- Amérique latine 20e siècle, Amérique latine -- Histoire
- Langue(s) : Anglais, Espagnol, castillan
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (viii-285 pages), : Illustrations en noir et en couleur, couverture illustrée en couleur, 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Studies on Latin American art, 6,
Notes
Bibliographie pages 251-264. Notes bibliographique en bas de page. Index
Résumé
This book discusses how some works of art produced in Latin America in the sixties, seventies, and eighties forged a different understanding of the female body, understood as space for the expression of a dissident subjectivity in relation to socially normalized places. Representations of art and of feminist activism interrogated the disciplining of the female body that entails as well the disciplining of the male body. Before a history of highly regulated artistic representations-regardless of the occasional exceptions a historian might point out-images erupted that questioned the social and institutional naturalization of the feminine and the masculine