{"product_id":"sabotage-art-9781350276611","title":"Sabotage Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Halart\u003c\/b\u003e is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago de Chile and a Teaching Fellow at University College London, UK, where she received her PhD on contemporary women artists in the Southern Cone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMara Polgovsky Ezcurra\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and received her PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNelly Richard once commented on the difficulty of reading the politics of Latin American contemporary art abroad without reducing the works to a testimonial function or, alternatively, stripping them of their incisive concreteness. This wonderful collection speaks to the emergence of a critical discourse on Latin American art that manages to hold form and politics not just in the balance but to read one through the other: a truly groundbreaking achievement. * Jens Andermann, Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSabotage Art \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a welcome shift of emphasis amidst perennial redefinitions of “political art” in Latin America. Framing sabotage as a “positional choice with regard to the institution” allows Halart, Polgovsky Ezcurra and their collaborators to critically interrogate the longstanding association of Latin American art with struggle or “adversity” for both historical case studies and the market delirium over “contemporary art”. This book makes for an excellent teaching resource on overlooked artists such as Paulo Bruscky, Enrique Guzman, Marcos Kurtycz, and Edgardo Antonio Vigo, offers fresh examinations of canonized avant-gardes in Argentina and Chile, and considers recent participatory projects in Bogotá and Mexico City. Yet it is most valuable in the sum total of its discrete chapters, which together demonstrate a range of new methods for a field now hitting its stride. * Daniel Quiles, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Theory \u0026amp; Criticism, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements  Introduction  \u003ci\u003eMara Polgovsky Ezcurra and Sophie Halart\u003c\/i\u003e  Part I: Ensnaring, Burning, Trespassing: Material Sabotage\t 1. Marta Minujin’s Self-Sabotage:  From Existentialism to Counterculture  \u003ci\u003eCatherine Spencer\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Shaman, Thespian, Saboteur: Marcos Kurtycz and the Ritual Poetics of Iconoclasm  \u003ci\u003eMara Polgovsky Ezcurra\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Pictorial Eviscerations, Emblems, and Self-Immolation in Mexico: Dissensus in the work of Enrique Guzmán and Nahum B. Zenil  \u003ci\u003eErica Segre\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Bureaucratic Sabotage: Knocking at the door of the ‘Big Monster’  \u003ci\u003eZanna Gilbert\u003c\/i\u003e  Part II: Cannons and Canons: Explosive vs. Implosive Postures  5. Cogs and Clogs: Sabotage as Noise in Post-1960s Chilean and Argentine Art and Art History  \u003ci\u003eSophie Halart\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Impossible Objects: Gabriel Orozco’s Empty Shoe Box and Yielding Stone  \u003ci\u003eNatasha Adamou \u003c\/i\u003e 7. El Museo de la Calle. Art, Economy and the Paradoxes of Bartering  \u003ci\u003eOlga Fernández López \u003c\/i\u003e 8. Stay at Your Own Risk: Disturbing Ideas of Community in Two Projects by Elkin Calderón  \u003ci\u003eCarla Macchiavello \u003c\/i\u003e 9. ‘The Space of Appearance’: Performativity and Aesthetics in the Politicization of Mexico’s Public Sphere  \u003ci\u003eRobin Greeley\u003c\/i\u003e  Notes Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407529255255,"sku":"9781350276611","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sabotage-art-9781350276611","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}