"Art and Social Movements "offers a comparative, cross-border
analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements
from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student
movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a
Zapotec indigenous struggle in Oaxaca, and the Chicano movement in
California. Based on extensive archival research and interviews,
Edward J. McCaughan explores how artists helped to shape the
identities and visions of a generation of Mexican and Chicano
activists by creating new visual discourses.
McCaughan argues that the social power of activist artists
emanates from their ability to provoke people to see, think, and
act in innovative ways. Artists, he claims, help to create visual
languages and spaces through which activists can imagine and
perform new collective identities and forms of meaningful
citizenship. The artists' work that he discusses remains vital
today--in movements demanding fuller democratic rights and social
justice for working people, women, ethnic communities, immigrants,
and sexual minorities throughout Mexico and the United States.
Integrating insights from scholarship on the cultural politics of
representation with structural analyses of specific historical
contexts, McCaughan expands our understanding of social
movements.
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