The Politics of Taste

Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics

Ana María Reyes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0397-7 (ISBN)

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In The Politics of Taste Ana MarÍa Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz GonzÁlez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed GonzÁlez's art during Colombia's National Front coalition government (1958–74). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While GonzÁlez’s triumphant debut excited critics who wanted to cast Colombian art as modern, sophisticated, and universal, her turn to urban lowbrow culture proved deeply unsettling. Traba praised GonzÁlez's cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads GonzÁlez's and Traba's complex visual and textual production and their intertwined careers against Cold War modernization programs that were deeply embedded in the elite's fear of the masses and designed to avert Cuban-inspired revolution. In so doing, Reyes provides fresh insights into Colombia's social anxieties and frustrations while highlighting how interrogations of taste became vital expressions of the growing discontent with the Colombian state.

Ana MarÍa Reyes is Assistant Professor of the History of Latin American Art and Architecture at Boston University, coeditor of SimÓn BolÍvar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon, and founding member of the Symbolic Reparations Research Project.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Dis-cursis 1
1. Vermeer in Bucaramanga, Beatriz in Bogotá 33
2. A Leap from the Domestic Sphere into the Sisga Reservoir 73
3. "Cut It Out": Impropriety at the MAMBO 113
4. Notes for an Exclusive History of Colombia 153
5. Modernist Obstruction at the Second Medellín Biennial 181
Epilogue. Underdeveloped Art for Underdeveloped People 218
Notes 231
Bibliography 283
Index 303

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	Art History Publication Initiative
Zusatzinfo	105 color illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4780-0397-9 / 1478003979
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0397-7 / 9781478003977
Zustand	Neuware