| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : color illustrations |
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[Art history publication initiative] |
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Art history publication initiative.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Dis-cursis -- Vermeer in Bucaramanga, Beatriz in Bogotá -- A leap from the domestic sphere into the Sisga reservoir -- Cut it out? : impropriety at the MAMBO -- Notes for an exclusive history of Colombia -- Modernist obstruction at the Second Medellín Biennial -- Epilogue : Underdeveloped art for underdeveloped people |
| Summary |
In The Politics of Taste Ana María Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed González's art during Colombia's National Front coalition government (1958-74). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While González's triumphant debut excited critics who wanted to cast Colombian art as modern, sophisticated, and universal, her turn to urban lowbrow culture proved deeply unsettling. Traba praised González's cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads González's and Traba's complex visual and textual production and their intertwined careers against Cold War modernization programs that were deeply embedded in the elite's fear of the masses and designed to avert Cuban-inspired revolution. In so doing, Reyes provides fresh insights into Colombia's social anxieties and frustrations while highlighting how interrogations of taste became vital expressions of the growing discontent with the Colombian state |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Association for Latin American Art Arvey Book Award, 2021 |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2020) |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
González, Beatriz, 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
González, Beatriz, 1938- fast |
| Subject |
Art, Colombian -- Political aspects -- 20th century
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Art, Colombian -- 20th century
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Pop art -- Colombia -- 20th century
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ART / Caribbean & Latin American
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Art, Colombian
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Pop art
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Colombia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019012478 |
| ISBN |
9781478004554 |
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147800455X |
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