Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet

by Jacqueline Adams

Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country's least powerful citizens--impoverished women living in Santiago's shantytowns--spotlighted the government's failings and use of violence by creating and selling arpilleras, appliqu d pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477302042
• ISBN13: 9781477302040
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"