Politics and the Art of Commemoration - Memorials to Struggle in Latin America and Spain

Zusatztext This book received an honorable mention in the New England Council of Latin American Studies best book category 2012. Informationen zum Autor Katherine Hite is Frederick Ferris Thompson Professor of Political Science and Director of the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie! New York. She is the author of When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left! 1968-1998! as well as several works on the politics of memory. Klappentext This text explores relationships among art! representation and politics through memorials to violent pasts. It uses memorials as conceptual lenses into deep politics of conflict and as suggestive arenas for imagining democratic practice. Zusammenfassung This book explores relationships among art, representation and politics through memorials to violent pasts. Drawing on curators, art historians, psychologists, political theorists, holocaust studies scholars, and others, the book uses memorials as conceptual lenses into deep politics of conflict and as suggestive arenas for imagining democratic practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Memorials to Struggle 2. Memorializing Spain’s Narrative of Empire 3. "The Eye that Cries": Victims, Victimizers, and the Question of Empathy 4. Searching and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Grief 5. The " Bicis " of Fernando Traverso: The Globality of Art and Memory Making

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Hite, Hite Katherine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2011
• EAN: 9780415780711
• ISBN: 978-0-415-78071-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Interventions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, History of art / art & design styles, Political science & theory, History of Art, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Political science and theory, Hispanic & Latino Studies, The arts: general topics