04021nam 2200661 a 450 991081716200332120240131120518.00-292-74383-110.7560/743823(CKB)3170000000060186(EBL)3443681(SSID)ssj0001036659(PQKBManifestationID)11574614(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036659(PQKBWorkID)11041953(PQKB)10566589(MiAaPQ)EBC3443681(OCoLC)867740605(MdBmJHUP)muse25062(Au-PeEL)EBL3443681(CaPaEBR)ebr10747512(OCoLC)857586352(DE-B1597)587817(OCoLC)1280943654(DE-B1597)9780292743830(EXLCZ)99317000000006018620130124d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArt against dictatorship[electronic resource] making and exporting arpilleras under Pinochet /by Jacqueline Adams1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20131 online resource (312 p.)Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ;bk. 29Description based upon print version of record.0-292-74382-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Solidarity art -- Beginnings: unemployment and joining groups -- The first arpillera groups -- Arpillera making in other groups and its spread -- Producing the arpilleras -- Selling arpilleras -- The buyers abroad -- Selling, giving, and exhibiting arpilleras in Chile -- The consequences of arpillera making.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, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out of Chile by human rights organizations, the arpilleras raised international awareness of the Pinochet regime’s abuses while providing income for the arpillera makers and creating a network of solidarity between the people of Chile and sympathizers throughout the world. Using the Chilean arpilleras 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 arpilleras 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 arpillera makers and human rights organization staff, who discuss how the arpilleras strengthened the resistance and empowered the women who made them.Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ;bk. 29WomenPolitical activityChileHistory20th centuryArpillerasDecorative artsPolitical aspectsChileHistory20th centuryWomenPolitical activityHistoryArpilleras.Decorative artsPolitical aspectsHistory305.40983Adams Jacqueline1667041MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817162003321Art against dictatorship4026641UNINA