{"title":"Review: Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex, by Juana María Rodríguez","authors":"Erin L. McCutcheon","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.68","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"78 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141715027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism, by Esther Gabara","authors":"Sergio Delgado Moya","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.66","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141706354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora 1990s–Today, edited by Carla Acevedo-Yates, and no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, by Marcela Guerrero","authors":"Joseph R. Hartman","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.70","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"23 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141700200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freddy Mamani’s Cholets for Export","authors":"Tara Daly","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.47","url":null,"abstract":"The Bolivian Aymara architect Freddy Mamani has constructed more than sixty brightly colored cholets in El Alto, a migrant sister city to La Paz, Bolivia. These fantastical constructions are neither pure romantic manifestations of an Aymara cosmovision nor only superficial decorations that symbolize the Aymara Indigenous peoples’ entry into capitalism. Instead, they reflect the complexity and contradictions of dynamic urban Indigenous identity in a globalized world. The article is the first of its kind to consider cholets outside a Bolivian context. The article illustrates how cholets have been constructed out of imported products and, in turn, transformed into exportable objects for global consumption. Via analyzing a range of visual media—photography, documentary, and museum installations—I make the case that in the process of exportation, the cholets are converted into decorative objects that risk obfuscating the long class and racial struggles of the Aymara as they have resisted, and embraced, global capitalism’s imperatives.","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141701775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Note","authors":"M. V. Alvarez","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"24 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141699759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growing a Social Art Practice","authors":"Jennifer Vanderpool","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the development of my post-studio, community-specific, site-responsive, socially engaged art practice as a method of creative research intersecting working-class, performance, and Latin American studies perspectives to discuss floriculture laborers and their work in Bogotá, Colombia, and Cayambe and Quito, Ecuador. I address my creative process as a Los Angeles–based artist laborer, facing the challenges of creating working-class transnational exhibition narratives and exploring the coproduction of community engagement exhibitions.","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"103 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141697255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un instante indómito","authors":"Ludmila Ferrari","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.3.20","url":null,"abstract":"The essay follows the trail of the “white column,” an architectural expression of the sovereign will to give a definitive form to the national identity, tracing its trajectory from the construction of Brasília (1956) to the Castello Branco dictatorship (1970). The essay explores the processes of formation (Didi-Huberman) and deformation of such communitarian architectonics and regards Brasília not as the monumental co-substantiation of national identity (as proposed by modernist/populist rhetoric), but as an example of a deferred modernity. The article explores the relationship between architecture and sovereignty using différance as a movement of inquiry and the white column as a body of analysis. This is an attempt, in short, to think through the historical and conceptual relations between architecture, labor and race.\u0000 The text is divided into three sections, each comprising a certain phantasmagoria of the white column, understood as the unfinished formation of modernity. In the first part, the theoretical components required to identify the formations that connect the extractive system of the sugar cane engenho with the new monumentality of Brasília are presented. Focusing on the colonnade designed by Niemeyer for the Palácio da Alvorada, the second part analyzes the relationship between suspension tectonics and the 1964 coup d’état. The last part investigates the playful reformulation of the white column in Ernesto Neto’s Leviathan Thot and its deject exploration, together with visual artist Artur Barrio’s trouxas ensangrentadas.","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"9 4p2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141689148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Samba and the Brown Body Politic","authors":"Rafael Cardoso","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.1.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.1.94","url":null,"abstract":"During the first half of the twentieth century, representing the body was a pivotal means to reimagine national and regional identities at a moment when the legacies of colonial power structures were coming under increasing scrutiny. The body became a vehicle through which artists could envision new, expanded, and intersecting notions of race, gender, class, nation, and region. Through close readings of single images created in eight different countries—Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Cuba—this Dialogues contains essays by scholars from South America, Europe, and the United States that reveal the capaciousness for the body to encapsulate local racial, class, and gender dynamics, to illuminate regional and national politics, and to embody divides between socially progressive politics and entrenched conservative social systems and hierarchies. The authors pay careful attention to form, subject, and style to demonstrate the potency of modernist figuration, an international and vibrant visual language, to interrogate issues of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, and gender. Together, the essays point to the critical particularities of iconography, context, and style. In so doing, they reinforce the ability of representation to resonate in multivalent ways and assert the power of the image to stir debate, fix (or challenge) convictions, and raise questions about histories. The authors harness the power and visual variety of realisms and representation in Latin America, revealing the malleability of the modernist body and its efficacy as a carrier of meaning and locus for debates about power, progress, and identity.","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"19 s1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139633596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s–2020s, by Claudia Calirman, and The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America, by Andrea Giunta","authors":"Gillian Sneed","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.1.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.1.129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139636991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Unseen Art: Making, Vision and Power in Ancient America, by Claudia Brittenham","authors":"Elizabeth Morán","doi":"10.1525/lavc.2024.6.1.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.1.127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211015,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture","volume":"72 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139638983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}