Description
Book SynopsisExamining artistic production in solidarity movements throughout the Cold War era, this multidisciplinary anthology reveals the tremendous role that art and performance have played in the quest for social justice in the Americas.
Trade ReviewThe collection makes inroads into documenting multidisciplinary artists whose works have motivated movements, connected people and ideas, and enacted localized and broad-based change. * H-Net Reviews *
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The Art of Solidarity] presents an excellent range of case studies both in terms of countries and time periods studied. While there is much diversity, the chapters are consistent in their engagement with the central questions of the volume making it suitable to dip into and very satisfying when taken as a whole. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *
The most dynamic and methodologically creative book I have read in any language on the cultural Cold War in the Americas…a book that will set new standards on how we understand Cold War Latin America. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *
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The Art of Solidarity] provides thought-provoking case studies of the role of art in solidarity movements. * The Americas *
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The Art of Solidarity] offers a new angle to solitary studies by emphasizing visual culture and performance art…The collection as a whole will be of special interest to scholars engaged with Latin America, solidarity, the Cold War era, art and performance studies, labor, gender and sexuality, transnational history, activism, and human rights. * Hispanic American Historical Review *
Taken as a whole,
The Art of Solidarity is reaching in the right direction, toward a consideration of empathy and also affects...Scholars interested [in] arts activism, social movements, human rights, and transitional justice should consider this anthology for their research and teaching. * Artelogie *
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Transnational Pathways of Empathy in the Americas (Jessica Stites Mor and Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas)
- Part I. Preparing the Ground, Holding Ground, 1944–2015
- Chapter 1. “My Art Speaks for Both My Peoples”: Elizabeth Catlett in Mexico (Melanie Anne Herzog)
- Chapter 2. Traditions of Resistance, Expressions of Solidarity, and the Honduran Coup (Katherine Borland)
- Part II. Resistance and Liberation, 1960–1974
- Chapter 3. Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’s Zero and the Aesthetics of Resistance in 1960s Brazil (Javier González)
- Chapter 4. Canto Libre: Folk Music and Solidarity in the Americas, 1967–1974 (Ashley Black)
- Part III. Cultural Economies of Solidarity, 1970–1987
- Chapter 5. “¡Estamos Hartas!”: Feminist Performances, Photography, and the Meanings of Political Solidarity in 1970s Mexico (Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda)
- Chapter 6. “Amor Solidario”: Revolutionary Lesbianism in Mexico City, 1977–1987 (Lucinda Grinnell)
- Part IV. Solidarity Action beyond Movements
- Chapter 7. Solidarity in Spectatorship (Kevin Coleman)
- Chapter 8. What Is Solidarity Art? (Jacqueline Adams)
- Epilogue (Ernesto Capello)
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
