Individual artists, art monographs
Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death
by Julia Banwell (Author)
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This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career, which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues to the present day, are explored from such theoretical perspectives as the philosophy of death; the difficult spectatorship of death and the corpse; approaches to the representation of death and dead bodies in art from inside and outside Mexico; and the response of art to traumatic events in Mexico during and since the 1990s. The extensive scope of the study is a significant contribution to scholarly material on the artist, attending to difficult questions around art and ethics; its analysis of Margolles's work is situated within the contexts of the long tradition of the display of real bodies and body parts in Mexican visual culture, against the backdrop of the effects of NAFTA and the War on Drugs.
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- Publisher University of Wales Press
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781783162499
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 95 GBP
- Pages240
- Publish StatusPublished
- SeriesIberian and Latin American Studies
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