Visionary Art of the Americas - Hemispheric Transculturations, Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics,

Unlike their European predecessors, many Latin American and North American authors turned to hallucinatory substances as elements of their own hemispheric heritage. The twentieth-century narratives analyzed in Visionary Art of the Americas: Hemispheric Transculturations, Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics, and Mass Consumer Culture in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia acquire their true depth only within a much wider realm of visionary traditions spanning Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Socially and culturally marginalized alongside users, hallucinogens-simultaneously a colonial anathema and a sacred pre-Columbian ritual-have gained increased mainstream acceptance. The various films and texts analyzed in this book attest to the true heterogeneity of hallucinogenic experience in the Americas at a time when scholarly attention to hallucination and visions as a survival adaptation of organic intelligence is crucial to understand its differences from A.I.

List of contents

Introduction: Hallucination, Psychedelia, and Visions in the Americas and the Arts
Chapter 1: The United States of America
Chapter 2: Mexico
Chapter 3: Colombia
Epilogue: A Tradition Debating the Real

About the author

By Juan David Cadena Botero

Product details

• Authors: Juan David Cadena Botero
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666934076
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-407-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; ART / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of art / art & design styles, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of Art, Literary studies: general, Social and cultural anthropology, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Hispanic & Latino Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino, ART / American / Hispanic & Latino