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Juan Davila
Juan Davila is an artist who believes in the possibility of effecting social change through art. Born in Chile, he moved to Australia in 1974. His art sets to counter indifference in the community and spark discourse on many issues in the international cultural and political landscape. His work has commented on the Australian political system, greed, capitalism, the oppression exerted by Western art history, the representation of sexuality and the treatment of marginalised people. This book features a selection of paintings, installations and works from the early 1970's to the early 2000's and includes essays and written commentary on key works.
Juan Davila
Since the early 1970s Juan Davila has used the medium of painting to engage in debates around aesthetics, politics and sexuality, drawing on the rich and varied traditions of Latin and North America, Australia and Europe. Considered as a whole, Davila has produced a uniquely provocative, powerful and influential body of work, raising to high art the visual landscape of popular culture. This catalogue raisonne reproduces all of Davila's work to date - more than 1200 artworks - with volume I covering paintings and volume II containing works on paper, installations and collaborations. Together they demonstrate that Davila's works are not simply reflections of a society awash with images, but a carefully articulated interrogation of the hierarchies applied to cultural material, and by extension, cultures. Davila examines the hidden tensions that lurk in the questionable ethics of contemporary society.
Transcontinental
Art produced in the so-called Third World, or by non-European or North American artists, is usually seen as either traditional and folkloric, or a poor imitation of modernism. In art history, the avant-garde has always been associated with the Western metropolis, forgetting that every country has had its own particular relationship with modernity. This book describes a contemporary flourishing of radical artistic experiment in Argentine, Brazil and Chile (or by artists originating from there). The focus and priorities have been different to those of Europe and North America; at the same time, the work intensifies many of the issues which face us all. The nine artists whose work is described ...
Dismantling the Nation
The first academic volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices and culture from Chile in the English language, Dismantling the Nation takes as its point of departure a radical criticism against the nation-state of Chile and its colonial, capitalist, heteronormative, and extractivist rule, proposing otherwise forms of inhabiting, creating, and relating in a more fluid, contingent, ecocritical, feminist, and caring worlds. From the case of Chile, the book expands the scholarly discussion around decolonial methodologies, attending to artistic practices and discourses from distinct and distant locations-from Arica and the Atacama Desert to Wallmapu and Tierra del Fuego, an...
Simón Bolívar's Quest for Glory
Earning glory on the fields of battle, Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) was one of the most influential and enigmatic figures of Latin American history. Most North Americans know little of "the Liberator" who freed South America from Spanish rule from 1810 to 1826. Richard W. Slatta and Jane Lucas De Grummond bring forth the entire life and legacy of Simón Bolívar, with special attention to the ups and the downs of his military career in Bolívar's Quest for Glory. Bolívar's life contained all the makings of an epic war hero: repeated comebacks from defeat, flashes of military genius, tremendous mood swings, dogged persistence, a near-manic quest for glory, and fall from political grace. He ...
The Art of the Collection
The Art of the Collection is a celebration of the State Library of Victoria's Picture Collection-the oldest visual documentary collection in Australia. Acting on its mandate to collect and preserve Victoria's documentary heritage, the Library acquires paintings, maps, diaries and documents that showcase all facets of Victorian life, past and present. The Library has an extensive collection of art works and a permanent display of 150 works in the Cowen Gallery. The works illustrate Victoria's landscape, early Melbourne scenes, and significant events and figures in the European exploration and settlement of Australia. The works range from early eighteenth and nineteenth century portraits, busts to contemporary portraits and scenes of Melbourne and Victoria from the 1800s until now. Works of some of our most celebrated and talented Australian artists are in the collection and showcased in this book: Eug ne von Gu rard, John Glover, Frederick McCubbin, Albert Tucker, Ian Fairweather, Lina Bryans, Jan Senbergs, Juan Davila and Howard Arkley to name but a few.
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Performance, Resistance and Refugees
This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection. Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security and refugee resistance. The first half of the book, titled On Stage, examines performance objects such as verbatim and documentary plays, children’s theatre, immersive performance, slam poetry, video art and feature films. Specifically, it considers how refugees, and their artistic collaborators, assert their individuality, agency and authority as well as their resistance to cruel policies like offshore processing through performance. The second half of the book, ti...
