Visual disobedience : art and decoloniality in Central America /
"Visual Disobedience offers a contemporary art history of post-war Central America that draws on decolonial and anti-colonial notions of aesthetics and artistic expression. Using examples of art and creativity to draw out the experiences of artists within and across borders, Kency Cornejo disma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Dissident acts.
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| Summary: | "Visual Disobedience offers a contemporary art history of post-war Central America that draws on decolonial and anti-colonial notions of aesthetics and artistic expression. Using examples of art and creativity to draw out the experiences of artists within and across borders, Kency Cornejo dismantles discourses of invisibility that obscure Central American art worlds. Starting with the late 1990s, Cornejo creates a panorama of art, politics, and decolonial strategies, using the framework of "visual disobedience" across the book's chapters to address historical repression, from Indigenous genocide, femicide, and anti-LGBTQ violence, to mass migration and captivity. The book utilizes this framework as a tool for comprehending art as revolutionary praxis against the backdrop of recent mass exoduses from the region and U.S. anti-immigration policy"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. |
| Awards: | ALAA: Arvey Book Award, 2026 ; Choice Outstanding Academic Titles: LC Class: N, 2026 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-269) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478030546 1478030542 9781478026334 1478026332 |