Description
Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this "aesthetics of resistance" is also employed by political and economic elites for their own purposes, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish from the "aesthetics of rule." Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.
Author: Lisa Bogerts
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 03/11/2022
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9781800731493
ISBN10: 1800731493
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Art & Politics
- Art | Graffiti & Street Art
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban