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Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America provides a welcome shift of emphasis in amidst perennial redefinitions of "political art" in Latin America. Framing sabotage as a "positional choice with regard to the institution" allows Halart, Polgovsky Ezcurra and their collaborators to critically interrogate the longstanding association of Latin American art with struggle or "adversity" for both historical case studies and the market delirium over "contemporary art." This book makes for an excellent teaching resource on overlooked artists such as Paulo Bruscky, Enrique Guzmn, Marcos Kurtycz, and Edgardo Antonio Vigo, offers fresh examinations of canonized avant-gardes in Argentina and Chile, and considers recent participatory projects in Bogot and Mexico City.
About the Author
Sophie Halart is an art historian specializing on Latin American contemporary art. She holds a PhD in History of Art (UCL) and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile.
