This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career; which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues to the present day; are explored from such theoretical perspectives as the philosophy of death; the difficult spectatorship of death and the corpse; approaches to the representation of death and dead bodies in art from inside and outside Mexico; and the response of art to traumatic events in Mexico during and since the 1990s. The extensive scope of the study is a significant contribution to scholarly material on the artist; attending to difficult questions around art and ethics; its analysis of Margollesrsquo;s work is situated within the contexts of the long tradition of the display of real bodies and body parts in Mexican visual culture; against the backdrop of the effects of NAFTA and the War on Drugs.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great for grandparents. parents. anyone wanting to reminisce...By Mom to 2 boysI bought this particular book for my grandmother and another of this series for my father. The books are full of photography. The photographs are usually taken from a particular photographer so sometimes it can be focused on a certain family or certain eras...however. it still serves the purpose of reminding your loved ones of their childhood. past. or of their past loved ones.
