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Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)

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Print Length: 312 pages
Publisher: University of Texas Press (September 15, 2013)
Publication Date: September 15, 2013
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Language: English
ASIN: B00EP3NNI4
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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, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make ends meet, ...

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