Ana Longoni
Autor von Listen Here Now! Argentine Art of the 1960s
Werke von Ana Longoni
Traiciones : la figura del traidor en los relatos acerca de los sobrevivientes de la represión (2007) 2 Exemplare
Del Di Tella a "Tucumán Arde" : vanguardia artística y política en el 68 argentino (2008) 2 Exemplare
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W/ this history behind me, & w/ very little other knowledge about Argentina, I was eager to read about avant-garde culture in the decade preceeding this nightmare, eager to try to get a grip on what was happening there culturally, eager to find out who did what & whether they survived.
As I was reading this, I was often bored - it's academic - & sometimes excited: there are some interesting ideas. Only one of the artists ended up murdered - but, as another one noted, it was mainly the working class being murdered at the time, the artists, regardless of the political nature of their work, were more privileged.
There was a happening that didn't happen - it was created as a media event; there was an investigation into political conditions in a poor province: data gathered to contradict the mass media's propaganda; there were artists burning their work in protest of the police closing an exhibit; there were artists protesting a prize that'd involved censorship; there was a rapid politicization of many of the artists; there were arrests.
In the chronology provided at the end of the bk about Argentinian events from 1945 to 1983, there's mentioned a military coup in 1955, one in 1962, one in 1966, & one in 1976. Reading this bk won't really help you understand all this, but it'll add some interesting details.… (mehr)