{"product_id":"art-against-dictatorship-9781477302040","title":"Art Against Dictatorship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling \u003ci\u003earpilleras\u003c\/i\u003e, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make ends meet, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out of Chile by human rights organizations, the \u003ci\u003earpilleras\u003c\/i\u003e raised international awareness of the Pinochet regime’s abuses while providing income for the \u003ci\u003earpillera\u003c\/i\u003e makers and creating a network of solidarity between the people of Chile and sympathizers throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the Chilean \u003ci\u003earpilleras\u003c\/i\u003e as a case study, this book explores how dissident art can be produced under dictatorship, when freedom of expression is abs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Solidarity Art\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beginnings: Unemployment and Joining Groups\u003cbr\u003e 3. The First Arpillera Groups\u003cbr\u003e 4. Arpillera Making in Other Groups and Its Spread\u003cbr\u003e 5. Producing the Arpilleras\u003cbr\u003e 6. Selling Arpilleras\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Buyers Abroad\u003cbr\u003e 8. Selling, Giving, and Exhibiting Arpilleras in Chile\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Consequences of Arpillera Making\u003cbr\u003e 10. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530747421015,"sku":"9781477302040","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477302040.jpg?v=1731880386","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-against-dictatorship-9781477302040","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}