Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán

by Edward J. McCaughan

Book Overview

Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a Zapotec indigenous struggle in Oaxaca, and the Chicano movement in California. Based on extensive archival research and interviews, Edward J. McCaughan explores how artists helped to shape the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235182X
• ISBN13: 9780822351825
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"