{"product_id":"art-against-dictatorship-making-and-exporting-arpilleras-under-pinochet-paperback","title":"Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Adams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt 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 \u003ci\u003earpilleras\u003c\/i\u003e, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make ends meet, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out of Chile by human rights organizations, the \u003ci\u003earpilleras\u003c\/i\u003e raised international awareness of the Pinochet regime's abuses while providing income for the \u003ci\u003earpillera\u003c\/i\u003e makers and creating a network of solidarity between the people of Chile and sympathizers throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing the Chilean \u003ci\u003earpilleras\u003c\/i\u003e as a case study, this book explores how dissident art can be produced under dictatorship, when freedom of expression is absent and repression rife, and the consequences of its production for the resistance and for the artists. Taking a sociological approach based on interviews, participant observation, archival research, and analysis of a visual database, Jacqueline Adams examines the emergence of the \u003ci\u003earpilleras\u003c\/i\u003e and then traces their journey from the workshops and homes in which they were made, to the human rights organizations that exported them, and on to sellers and buyers abroad, as well as in Chile. She then presents the perspectives of the \u003ci\u003earpillera\u003c\/i\u003e makers and human rights organization staff, who discuss how the \u003ci\u003earpilleras\u003c\/i\u003e strengthened the resistance and empowered the women who made them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacqueline Adams has worked as an assistant professor of sociology in Hong Kong, senior researcher at the University of Coimbra, and research fellow, scholar-in-residence, and visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, where she is currently based.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 311\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457613938941,"sku":"9781477302040","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/MC9sV0FzV1dQTVJQK3poL0FHU1Vpdz09.webp?v=1777242434","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/art-against-dictatorship-making-and-exporting-arpilleras-under-pinochet-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}