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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Populist Counter-Spectacles and the Inception of Mass Media Art in Argentina: Marta Minujín’s Happenings, Performances, and Environments of the 1960s

de Lacaze, Michaela Norah January 2019 (has links)
This monographic dissertation traces the development of happenings and mass media art in Argentina through the works that Argentine artist Marta Minujín created between 1961 and 1968. It argues that, in its unparalleled pursuit of a mass audience, Minujín’s art articulated a populist logic that allowed it to subvert authoritarianism in an oblique manner based in dissensus. This distinguished Minujín’s practice from that of other politically radicalized Argentine artists, who had turned their art into a form of activism and overt critique of the dictatorship of General Onganía. This dissertation also demonstrates that Minujín’s media-centric happenings and environments adopted a carnivalesque strategy of “positive negation” or ambiguous mimetic excess to reveal and critique the effects of an incipient spectacle culture.

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