Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death
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Teresa
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- ISBN 9781783162499
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2015
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career, which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues to the present day, are explored from such theoretical perspectives as the philosophy of death; the difficult spectatorship of death and the corpse; approaches to the representation of death and dead bodies in art from inside and outside Mexico; and the response of art to traumatic events in Mexico during and since the 1990s. The extensive scope of the study is a significant contribution to scholarly material on the artist, attending to difficult questions around art and ethics; its analysis of Margolles’s work is situated within the contexts of the long tradition of the display of real bodies and body parts in Mexican visual culture, against the backdrop of the effects of NAFTA and the War on Drugs.
The book would be suitable for academics and further and higher education students in the fields of Mexican cultural studies, and history of art. It would also appeal to people with an interest in Teresa Margolles, art that meditates on death, art that responds to traumatic events, Mexican art, and contemporary and conceptual art in general. It would also be suitable for non-academics who are interested in the aesthetics and philosophy of death, Mexican art, and Mexican visual culture.
