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... and the “Generación del 50,” a group that championed traditional, politically committed art in Puerto Rico. The exploration of Galería El Morro and Puerto Rico Gallery underscores the avant-garde’s intention to break artistic traditions. The chapter highlights the artists’ efforts to bridge cultural and geographical...

..., and caricature. Drawing from traditional forms of Indigenous humor such as Ari'oi theater in Tahiti and fale aitu in Samoa, these artists perpetuate the ancestral tradition to ridicule the deadly power of the ruling class, thereby suggesting the decolonial potential of traditional clowning in the face...

... This short summary gives an overview of the fanart curated in the special section on fanart that follows, discussing the themes, media, art traditions, and interventions found in the included works by various artists. fanart ARMY gift economy ...

... to break artistic traditions. The chapter highlights the artists’ efforts to bridge cultural and geographical gaps, revealing their role in shaping Puerto Rican and Diasporican art histories. avant-garde political art artistic traditions art history This chapter uncovers the dynamic...

... and the aesthetic have come to be conceived and related (at times almost as opposed concepts; at other times as complementary notions) in a number of distinct intellectual and artistic traditions, themselves emerging out of particular histories concerning the theorization of both the social and the aesthetic...

...Living Our Legacy<subtitle>Ancestral Knowledge as Radical Futurity</subtitle> Part 5 focuses on the ways in which artists engage with ancestral connections and nonlinear time in order to cultivate radical futures. Contributions feature topics including the importance of connecting with native...

... This thematic chapter examines several of Heap of Birds’s ongoing series, including the abstract Neuf paintings and his conceptual public art interventions, such as the artist’s well-known Native Hosts projects. These works are discussed in light of the tradition of landscape representations...

..., and Tourism, called KOCCA (the Korea Creative Content Agency), which has initiated several projects to support local musicians, including idol groups, independent musicians, solo artists, and even traditional Korean music gugak -oriented fusion bands. Lee claims that the government contributes to not only...

... This chapter introduces Penny Siopis’s films to the reader, situates her as a South African artist and filmmaker and thereafter places her work in relation to wider cinematic traditions of thought and practice, including the essay film genre, cinécriture, Third Cinema, and African diasporic...

... and its importance for art-workers-cum-artists such as Rhonda Unurupa Dick. Dick’s award-winning landscape portraiture confounds distinctions between subject and object, human and nature, literacy and the photograph. Her work reveals how, contra to expectation, tradition is not at risk from...

... This chapter documents Mapfumo’s shift to creating songs drawing on Zimbabwean traditional music—including mbira—and with lyrics that comment on the situation in the country as the liberation struggle reaches its violent crescendo. Moving from the Mhangura mine to Salisbury (Harare...

... For Jacques Rancière, engaged art violates the necessary separation of the artist from the exigencies of political change, thereby abandoning art’s unique critical potential. This chapter challenges that interpretation, drawing out aesthetic qualities associated with engaged art...

...Biliteracies Tangentyere Artists is the first community arts center for Aboriginal people and community members living in town camps of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Chapter 2 provides an original analysis of the emergent aesthetics of Tangentyere Artists. It presents the practice...

... Maldonado, and others, the chapter highlights an alternative current in Nuyorican art. These artists disrupt traditional representational norms, engaging in a spectacle of the self that dislocates, dislodges, and empowers. By focusing on the performative methods and principles inherent in these artworks...

... This chapter delves into the web series “Ask Chuleta,” created and performed by Nuyorican artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz between 2006 and 2013. Chuleta, a young female artist from the Bronx, records confessional-style vlogs on YouTube to bridge gaps and build communities within the art world. She...

... in the contemporary musical aesthetics of Mali. Both musical traditions are highly improvisational and virtuosic but articulate the connections among social, ethical, religious, and musical in different ways. In Mali, the idea of sensibilsation as an important activity for popular artists involves educating broad...

... The introductory chapter provides background on the artist’s practice. Heap of Birds describes his practice as continuing a warrior tradition, comparing his art to the “sharp rocks,” or stone projectile points, found on the ground of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Nation and elsewhere in North America...

... The coda focuses on poetry and art that offer extant, imagined possibilities of relations between black and Indigenous labour. It argues that the diasporic, black aesthetic tradition offers ways of reading black labuor in terms of its openings to indigeneity. It examines works by Stephanie...

... Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) fiber artworks, known as Tjanpi, may appear as innocuous works of traditional women’s handicraft: baskets, bowls, figurative soft sculpture. This does not, however, deradicalize the gesture contained in their form. Chapter 5 tracks how, within...