Art Against Dictatorship - Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet

Zusammenfassung This pioneering study of Chilean arpillera folk art and its makers, sellers, and buyers explores the creation of a solidarity art system and shows how art can be a powerful force for opposing dictatorship and empowering oppressed people. Preface Acknowledgments 1. Solidarity Art 2. Beginnings: Unemployment and Joining Groups 3. The First Arpillera Groups 4. Arpillera Making in Other Groups and Its Spread 5. Producing the Arpilleras 6. Selling Arpilleras 7. The Buyers Abroad 8. Selling, Giving, and Exhibiting Arpilleras in Chile 9. The Consequences of Arpillera Making 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Adams
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2013
• EAN: 9780292743823
• ISBN: 978-0-292-74382-3
• No. of pages: 311
• Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series; Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries