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Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985

Research guide for exhibit

The Power of Words

While dictatorships in Latin America employed extreme measures of surveillance to control language— repressive tactics that targeted both written and spoken words and the bodies that enunciated them—artists created indirect ways of addressing the harsh political realities that they were experiencing. Here the political becomes poetic and the poetic turns political.

Artist Information

Links to basic biographical information, selected exhibitions, and a selected bibliography. Please also see Wikipedia for more information.