This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career, which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues to the present day, are explored from such theoretical perspectives as the philosophy of death; the difficult spectatorship of death and the corpse; approaches to the representation of death and dead bodies in art from inside and outside Mexico; and the response of art to traumatic events in Mexico during and since the 1990s. The extensive scope of the study is a significant contribution to scholarly material on the artist, attending to difficult questions around art and ethics; its analysis of Margolles's work is situated within the contexts of the long tradition of the display of real bodies and body parts in Mexican visual culture, against the backdrop of the effects of NAFTA and the War on Drugs.
| ISBN: | 9781783162499 |
| Publication date: | 15th June 2015 |
| Author: | Julia Banwell, Teresa Margolles |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Iberian and Latin American Studies |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics History of art History of the Americas |
This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career, which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues to the present day, are explored from such theoretical perspectives as the philosophy of death; the difficult spectatorship of death and the corpse; approaches to the representation of death and dead bodies in art from inside and outside Mexico; and the response of art to traumatic events in Mexico during and since the 1990s. The extensive scope of the study is a significant contribution to scholarly material on the artist, attending to difficult questions around art and ethics; its analysis of Margolles's work is situated within the contexts of the long tradition of the display of real bodies and body parts in Mexican visual culture, against the backdrop of the effects of NAFTA and the War on Drugs.
Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death features in the following genres: The arts: general topics, History of art, History of the Americas
Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death is available in Hardback
Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death was written by Julia Banwell, Teresa Margolles and published by University of Wales Press
Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Iberian and Latin American Studies series