Visual Disobedience

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"As a scholar whose works straddles Latin American and diasporic Latinx art history, I need this book. Countless others like me will learn from this important and unique study. Kency Cornejo brings a depth of understanding to the issues and artists she showcases who bear witness, resist, and stand up with extraordinary courage and creativity against violence. Visual Disobedience will be a stand-out work in Latin American modern and contemporary art history and is essential to the wider history of contemporary art in the Americas." - Adriana Zavala, coauthor of Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City "Kency Cornejo masterfully themeatizes the subversive acts of visual disobedience that she finds in a large array of artists and artworks from the Central American region. Building from a variety of decolonial projects and theoretical positions, this splendid text illuminates highly creative works that visualize and further advance the struggle against the naturalization of poverty and early death, rape, feminicide, imprisonment as well as the violence of nation-state institutions and borders. This book is an anticolonial act of resistance and insurgency that demonstrates the reach and density of visual combative decoloniality in and from Central America." - Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity "Visual Disobedience is a brilliant and necessary book that makes a valuable contribution to the study of Latin American art and will influence the discipline for a long time to come." - Gavin O'Toole Morning Star "The title, "Visual Disobedience", is fully earned by the stunning diversity of the images of eighty artworks filling its pages. . . . Kency Cornejo observes how art from Central America has been rendered invisible by the art world and the cultural establishment as a whole. Her book is a vital and welcomed step forward in challenging this erasure." - Sean Sheehan The Prisma