Appropriation as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina

By Arnd Schneider

Book Overview

How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349534404
• ISBN13: 9781349534401
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"