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Art Against Dictatorship - Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet (Paperback)
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Art Against Dictatorship - Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet (Paperback)
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Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive
governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile,
some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished
women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the
government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling
arpilleras, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the
unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work
to make ends meet, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out
of Chile by human rights organizations, the arpilleras raised
international awareness of the Pinochet regime’s abuses while
providing income for the arpillera makers and creating a network of
solidarity between the people of Chile and sympathizers throughout
the world. Using the Chilean arpilleras as a case study, this book
explores how dissident art can be produced under dictatorship, when
freedom of expression is absent and repression rife, and the
consequences of its production for the resistance and for the
artists. Taking a sociological approach based on interviews,
participant observation, archival research, and analysis of a
visual database, Jacqueline Adams examines the emergence of the
arpilleras and then traces their journey from the workshops and
homes in which they were made, to the human rights organizations
that exported them, and on to sellers and buyers abroad, as well as
in Chile. She then presents the perspectives of the arpillera
makers and human rights organization staff, who discuss how the
arpilleras strengthened the resistance and empowered the women who
made them.
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Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2013 |
First published: |
2013 |
Authors: |
Jacqueline Adams
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
311 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4773-0204-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
1-4773-0204-2 |
Barcode: |
9781477302040 |
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