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Touched Bodies

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize? Winner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art Association What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? In Touched Bodies, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy. Based on original documents and innovative readings, her book brings politics and ethics to the discussion of artistic developments during the “long 1980s”. She describes the rise of performance art in the context of feminism, HIV-activism, and human right movements, taking a close look at the work of Diamela Eltit and Raúl Zurita from Chile, León Ferrari and Liliana Maresca from Argentina, and Marcos Kurtycz, the No Grupo art collective, and Proceso Pentágono from Mexico. The comparative study of the work of these artists attests to a performative turn in Latin American art during the 1980s that, like photography and film before, recast the artistic field as a whole, changing the ways in which we perceive art and understand its role in society.

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ISBN: 9781978802025
Publication date: 21st June 2019
Author: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 276 pages
Genres: Individual actors and performers
History of art
Theatre studies
The Arts: treatments and subjects
Human rights, civil rights
International relations
Media studies