The Politics of Taste : Beatriz Gonzalez and Cold War Aesthetics

Name: The Politics of Taste : Beatriz Gonzalez and Cold War Aesthetics
Brand: Duke University Press

Duke University Press

In The Politics of Taste Ana Mar\u00CDa Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonz\u00C1lez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed Gonz\u00C1lez's art during Colombia's National Front coalition government (1958\u201374). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While Gonz\u00C1lez\u2019s 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 Gonz\u00C1lez's cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads Gonz\u00C1lez's and Traba's complex visual and textual\n\nThe Politics of Taste\nBeatriz Gonzalez and Cold War Aesthetics\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Roy;