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In The Politics of Taste Ana Mar a Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonz lez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed Gonz lezs art during Colombias National Front coalition government (1958-74). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While Gonz lezs triumphant debut excited critics who wanted to cast Colombian art as modern, sophisticated, and universal, her turn to urban lowbrow culture proved deeply unsettling. Traba praised Gonz lezs cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads Gonz lezs and Trabas complex visual and textual production and their intertwined careers against Cold War modernization programs that were deeply embedded in the elites fear of the masses and designed to avert Cuban-inspired revolution. In so doing, Reyes provides fresh insights into Colombias social anxieties and frustrations while highlighting how interrogations of taste became vital expressions of the growing discontent with the Colombian state.About the AuthorAna Mar a Reyes is Assistant Professor of the History of Latin American Art and Architecture at Boston University, coeditor of Sim n Bol var: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon, and founding member of the Symbolic Reparations Research Project.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Duke University Press
