Politics and the Art of Commemoration: Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

By Katherine Hite

Book Overview

This book explores relationships among art, representation and politics through memorials to violent pasts. Drawing on curators, art historians, psychologists, political theorists, holocaust studies scholars, and others, the book uses memorials as conceptual lenses into deep politics of conflict and as suggestive arenas for imagining democratic practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415843545
• ISBN13: 9780415843546
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"