Incorporated Vision: Artistic Critiques of the Development Discourse in Latin America
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Latin American, art, body, vision, development discourseAbstract
This essay analyzes three key works of Latin American art in the 1960s and 1970s: La Destrucción (1963) by Argentine artist Marta Minujín, La Muerte del Justo y la Muerte del Pecador (1973) by the Colombian artist Beatriz González, and Mandala (1969) by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. These works blur the lines between body of the artist, the spectator or participant and the work of art, making intelligible the somatic, historical, social, and ideological constitution of vision. In doing so, these works puncture the myth of the disinterested or objective gaze of scientific rationalism that buttressed development discourse and thus Cold War power relationsDownloads
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