Overview
- Focus exclusively on Contemporary art and politics in Colombia
- Examines a comprehensive cross-section of arts in Colombia
- Offers an interdisciplinary approach, including philosophical, political and sociological analyses
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Memory and Sensation
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The Anthropological Turn
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About this book
This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia. These relations are unique because of the ways in which they are saturated by violence, as the country has passed through conquest, struggles for Independence, fighting between political factions, civil war, paramilitaries, narco-traffickers and state violence. This seemingly unending stream of violence gives art in Colombia one of its main themes. The lavishly illustrated essays, written by Colombian authors, examine Colombian visual arts, music, theatre, literature, cinema, indigenous arts, popular culture, militant publications and recent protest movements, analysing them with tools drawn from contemporary philosophy and theory. Approaches include decolonisation theory, cosmopolitics, anthropology after the ontological turn, Colombian philosophy, feminism, and French theory. The essays all offer powerful understandings of how art has not only been complicit in perpetuating political violence in Colombia, but also how it has been a vital form of analysis and resistance.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher living in Vienna, Austria. His recent publications include: Hacia un "nuevo" nuevo brutalismo. Encuentros con los Jardines de Robin Hood (2022), Head in the Stars, Essays on Science Fiction (2020), La Sensación Más Allá de Los Límites, Ensayos sobre arte y política (2019) and Sublime Art, Towards an Aesthetics of the Future (2017).
Nicolás Alvarado Castillo is a Professor of Philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. He is the faculty’s Publishing Director and co-editor of the peer reviewed journal Universitas Philosophica. He is author of Les variations de la ligne parfaite. Enquête philosophique sur l’idée de vers chez Mallarmé (2022). He currently works at the intersection of Aesthetics and Post-Marxist Theory and has published on contemporary French thought, philosophy and literature, and philosophy and theatre.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Violence and Resistance, Art and Politics in Colombia
Editors: Stephen Zepke, Nicolás Alvarado Castillo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10326-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10325-4Published: 21 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10328-5Published: 22 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10326-1Published: 20 April 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 271
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American Culture, Latin American History, Arts, Cultural Heritage, Audio-Visual Culture