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Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala
In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict. Twenty years later, the new era of political protest in Guatemala is highly complex and contradictory: the persistence of colonialism, fraught indigenous-settler relations, political exclusion, corruption, criminal impunity, gendered violence, judicial procedures conducted under threat, entrenched inequality, as well as economic fragility. Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala examines the complexities of the quest for justice in Guatemala, and the realities of both new forms of resistance and long-s...
Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human
This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and examine the ways humans and nonhumans shape one another. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to global conversations about humanism and the posthuman. Contributors identify posthumanist themes across a range of different materials, including an anecdote about a plague of rabbits in Historia de las Indias by Spanish historian Bartolomé de las Casas, photography depicting desert landscapes at the site of Brazil’s War of Canudos, and digital and installation art portraying victims of state-sponsored and drug violence in Colombia an...
Ephemeral Monuments
This is an indispensible volume for creators, curators, and conservators of installation art. Installation art is an evolving, often ephemeral medium that defies rigid categorization. It has also radically transformed the concepts of space, time, and the experience of art. The conservation field is faced with unique challenges over how best to manage and preserve the essence of these works. How detailed can documentation get? When does the replacement of original components become acceptable? How does the field cope with the obsolescence of certain technologies? By exploring the questions and dilemmas facing those who care for art installations, this book intends to raise awareness and promote discussion about the various conservation approaches for these works.
The Great Mother
Whether as a symbol of creativity or as a metaphor for art itself, the archetype of the mother has been a central figure in the history of art, from the Venuses of the Stone Age to the "bad girls" of the postfeminist era and through centuries of religious works depicting innumerable maternity scenes. The more familiar version of "Mamma" has also become a stereotype closely tied to the image of Italy. In undertaking an analysis of the representation of motherhood, the catalogue The Great Mother will trace a history of women's empowerment, chronicling gender struggles, sexual politics, and clashes between tradition and emancipation. The volume will mix past and present, juxtaposing contemporar...
After the Revolution
"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" asked the prominent art historian Linda Nochlin in a provocative 1971 essay. Today her insightful critique serves as a benchmark against which the progress of women artists may be measured. In this book, four prominent critics and curators describe the impact of women artists on contemporary art since the advent of the feminist movement.
500 Years of Italian Furniture
Traces the evolution of interior decorating in the Italian and European courts throughout the past half millennium, evaluating the artistry of furniture and decorative objects while citing the pivotal contributions of such masters as Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Filippo Juvarra.
Femminucce
Non fare la femminuccia. Quante volte abbiamo sentito dire questa frase? Non solo nella quotidianità, ma anche in film, serie tv, fumetti, canzoni... insomma, ovunque. Non fare la femminuccia, parafrasato: non fare il debole, non essere timido, tira fuori il coraggio, fai l'uomo! Invito sempre declinato al maschile, perché è solo ai maschi che viene rivolto. O meglio, imposto. E chi femminuccia già lo è? Be', di certo non ha molte possibilità di rivalsa su uno stereotipo così consolidato. Come scrive Federica Fabrizio nell'introduzione, "la convinzione che la debolezza sia associata alle donne si regge sulla nostra sistematica esclusione dai libri di storia, dalla politica, dalle clas...
Il senso delle soggettività
In un convegno dedicato alle Soggettività un laboratorio sul silenzio non poteva mancare: nel silenzio verso l’esterno si sviluppa infatti la percezione di sé e il dialogo con se stessi, condizioni per il costituirsi di quello spazio intimo denominato nella nostra cultura “interiorità”. Roland Barthes racconta che gli accadde quando da giovane, affetto da tubercolosi, trascorse dei periodi in sanatorio, dove per l’appunto era prescritta la cura del silenzio: passare alcune ore della giornata, in solitudine, a riposo o leggendo, senza parlare. Cura probabilmente ispirata alle regole monastiche, che ritroviamo in forma mitigata anche nelle prime classi di scuola (almeno, nei ricordi di chi scrive). Il silenzio, dunque, come forma più o meno radicale di ritiro simbolico dal mondo, dalla sua chiacchiera e dal suo esserci, avrebbe detto Heidegger: prove tecniche di meditazione sull’autenticità dell’essere (Isabella Pezzini)
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