O corpo vulnerado
Sinopse
The book comprises a selection of essays by Maria Angélica Melendi, one of the leading names in theoretical and critical reflection on the Latin American visual arts. In the book, the scholar and researcher address the artistic production in South America that puts the body in evidence, either by showing its face violated by historical violence and oppression, or as resistance, force of invention or fabulation. The volume encompasses the radical performances of Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, the embroidery of Arthur Bispo, Feliciano Centurión and Leonilson, the relationship of Helio Oiticica with the marginal and the cities expressed in her works, the political issues of the feminine in works of Anna Bella Geiger, Lygia Pape and Lygia Clark in the context of the military dictatorship in Brazil, the work-installation #rioutópico of Rosangela Rennó, the work of Paulo Nazareth, among others. By "thinking of the South as a state of the body" rather than a "state of mind", the author presents a dense and thought-provoking vision of the contemporary relations between art and politics. Born in Buenos Aires in 1945, Melendi arrives in Belo Horizonte in 1975, at the critical moment of military regime in Argentina, which lasted from 1976 to 1985. She has lived and worked in Brazil since 1975. She is the coordinator of the Grupo de pesquisa Estratégias da Arte na Era das Catástrofes (Research Group Strategies of Art in the Age of Catastrophes).
Sinopse
The book comprises a selection of essays by Maria Angélica Melendi, one of the leading names in theoretical and critical reflection on the Latin American visual arts. In the book, the scholar and researcher address the artistic production in South America that puts the body in evidence, either by showing its face violated by historical violence and oppression, or as resistance, force of invention or fabulation. The volume encompasses the radical performances of Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, the embroidery of Arthur Bispo, Feliciano Centurión and Leonilson, the relationship of Helio Oiticica with the marginal and the cities expressed in her works, the political issues of the feminine in works of Anna Bella Geiger, Lygia Pape and Lygia Clark in the context of the military dictatorship in Brazil, the work-installation #rioutópico of Rosangela Rennó, the work of Paulo Nazareth, among others. By "thinking of the South as a state of the body" rather than a "state of mind", the author presents a dense and thought-provoking vision of the contemporary relations between art and politics. Born in Buenos Aires in 1945, Melendi arrives in Belo Horizonte in 1975, at the critical moment of military regime in Argentina, which lasted from 1976 to 1985. She has lived and worked in Brazil since 1975. She is the coordinator of the Grupo de pesquisa Estratégias da Arte na Era das Catástrofes (Research Group Strategies of Art in the Age of Catastrophes).