Alfredo Jaar
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1973
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accountability
Author_Florencia San Martin
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Chilean military coup
Cold War
coloniality of language
critical minerals
decolonial time
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failure
forthcoming
global contemporary art
hemispheric studies
Henry Kissinger
international jurisdiction
mourning
museum coloniality
neoliberalism
Quincentenary
September 11
transnational solidarities
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- ISBN 9781478038788
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Alfredo Jaar, the first critical academic survey devoted to the prominent Chilean-born artist, Florencia San Martín shows how his work takes up mourning, accountability, and failure, offering a new model for how to think about global contemporary art today.
In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martín analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity that obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. San Martín argues that Jaar’s work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of the violent systems we inhabit. His art, she maintains, is informed by and responds to two interconnected historical events relevant to his own life: the US-backed military coup that established Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile and the implementation around the world of the corollary neoliberal economic system. San Martín explores the key themes in Jaar’s artistic practice—mourning, accountability, and failure—which situate the victims of the Chilean regime in a global context, directly confront the architects of atrocity, and question how ideas of diversity and inclusion have been co-opted by modern neoliberal discourses. Alfredo Jaar enables us to reimagine art history, offering a fresh paradigm with which to think about global contemporary art.
In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martín analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity that obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. San Martín argues that Jaar’s work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of the violent systems we inhabit. His art, she maintains, is informed by and responds to two interconnected historical events relevant to his own life: the US-backed military coup that established Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile and the implementation around the world of the corollary neoliberal economic system. San Martín explores the key themes in Jaar’s artistic practice—mourning, accountability, and failure—which situate the victims of the Chilean regime in a global context, directly confront the architects of atrocity, and question how ideas of diversity and inclusion have been co-opted by modern neoliberal discourses. Alfredo Jaar enables us to reimagine art history, offering a fresh paradigm with which to think about global contemporary art.
Florencia San Martín is Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University.
Wolfgang Kaleck is the founder as well as general secretary for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
Wolfgang Kaleck is the founder as well as general secretary for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
