Table Of ContentAppropriation as Practice
Art and Identity in Argentina
Arnd Schneider
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APPROPRIATION AS PRACTICE
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Studies of the Americas
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School of Advanced Study
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Appropriation as Practice
Art and Identity in Argentina
Arnd Schneider
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APPROPRIATIONASPRACTICE
© Arnd Schneider,2006.
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Appropriation as practice :art and identity in Argentina / Arnd Schneider.
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Revision of the author’s thesis (Habilitation)––University of Hamburg,2004.
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1.Art,Argentine––20th century.2.Identity (Psychology) in art.3.Art and
society––Argentina––History––20th century.4.Indian art––Argentina––Influence.
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Curiositas enim experiendi incitatum facit Super Danielem, 14, 15
Albertus Magnus (ca. 1193–1280)
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1
Introduction: The Paradoxes of Identity in Argentina 1
Chapter 2
Theoretical Foundations: On Appropriation and Culture Change 19
Chapter 3
The Buenos Aires Art World: Sites of Appropriation 35
Chapter 4
Copy and Creation: Potters, Graphic Designers, Textile Artists 63
Chapter 5
Fashionable Savages: Photographic Representations
of the Indigenous 91
Chapter 6
Setting up Roots: On the Set of a Cinema Movie in a
Mapuche Reservation 111
Chapter 7
Practices of Artistic Fieldwork and Representation:
The Case of Teresa Pereda’s Bajo el Nombre de San Juan 133
Chapter 8
The Indiginization of Identity 163
Appendix I: A Note on Methodology, or the Challenge
of Artistic Practices 187
Appendix II: Structure of the Buenos Aires Art World 195
Notes 197
Bibliography 211
Name Index 227
Subject Index 229
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List of Figures
All photos: Arnd Schneider, unless otherwise indicated.
1. Norberto Rodríguez, Opening statement of the
Series “ETNO—GRAFICA,”1994 1
2. Santiago Calatrava (architect and engineer),
Puente de la Mujer, Buenos Aires, 1999–2000.
© Alan Karchmer, Architectural Photographer 14
3. Alejandro Puente, sin título(feathers), 1986 40
4. Alejandro Portillos, Altar Latinoamericano, 2000 41
5. Entry Hall, MALBA, Buenos Aires 48
6. Cecilia de Torres gallery, New York, at Arte BA, 2000 54
7. A woman with a poncho at Arte BA, 2000 56
8. Escultura Indígena Argentinaat Arte BA, 2000 56
9. Artisans from the M’Bya Guaraní community, 8a
Feria del Sol, 2000 59
10. A view of Juan Maffi’s studio, 2000; including in the
sculptures El duelo(centre; cement and bones) and
El hombre toro(right; adobe, branches, and bones) 60
11. Mirta Marziali, Calendario, ceramic sculpture, 1999 65
12. Vessel burnt with oxygen reduction technique and with
incised feline motifs. Exact copy of Pre-Columbian
designs (Aguada culture, NE Argentina). Potter: Marcela
López. By permission of the artist/Mirta Marziali studio 69
13. The vessel in the making, and source for decorative motif 72
14. Examples of transcriptions of designs from Pre-Columbian
pottery in Argentina, by Alejandro Fiadone. Reproduced
from Fiadone (2001: 22), courtesy of Alejandro Fiadone
and La Marca Editora, Buenos Aires 73
15. Polishing the vessel 74
16. Oxygen reduction: putting the burning vessel into the tin 75
17. Applying white slip (kaolin) to the vessel 76
18. Stylistic variations and the correcting hand of the lecturer 79
19. A student working at the Creole loom 82
20. Rosalía at her loom 84
Description:This book makes a major contribution to the current debate on globalization, and more precisely to the question of how the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the co
