Arpilleras
Subtitle: colección del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos
By: [investigación y textos: Verónica Sánchez, conservadora ; María Luisa Ortiz, Jefa de Colecciones e Investigación]
Contributors: Aguirre, Soledad, writer of supplementary textual content; Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago, Chile)
Edition: Segunda edición revisada y corregida.
Publisher: Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos; Ocho Libros
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santiago, Chile
Language: spa
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789563355130
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; Arpilleras; Politics in art; Folk art; Women; Political activity; History; Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago, Chile)
Description: The arpilleras (a brightly colored patchwork picture made predominantly by groups of women) have a special ability to confront opposite symbols. We see pigeons, newborn children and nature, but we also see cemeteries, blood and repressive agents. Thus, this expression that was born as a form of union between the victims of the Pinochet dictatorship has transcended the conjuncture to become one of the most moving examples of artistic sensitivity, courage and solidarity. This catalog of the arpilleras collection of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights invites you to understand and value in work done by women from all over Chile who, overcoming all difficulties, managed to cross the borders and today represents an inescapable testimony of an era in which life was stronger than death.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Presentación; title: Arpilleras: Arte poblacional como testimonio y simbolo; title: Fundación Solidaridad; title: Isabel Morel; title: Genevieve Jacques; title: PIDEE; title: Carmen Waugh; title: Pauline Waugh; title: Kinderhilfe ChileBonn; title: Lisa Voionmaa; title: Marijke Oudegeest; title: Maria Paz Santinañez; title: Arpilleras de Chile de la fundación Helias y Carmen Alegria; title: Dieter Maier; title: María José Bunster; title: Rosemary Baxter; title: Gabriela Videla Gonzalez; title: Florrie Snow; title: Anne Lamouche; title: Memch Los Angeles; title: Sheila Reid; title: Francoise de Menthon; title: Carolina Lehmann; title: Mireya Moreno; title: Belgica Castro; title: Gloria Torres; title: Fundación Solaridad; title: Taller de Arpilleria Prais; title: Agrupación de familiares de detenidos desaparecidos de Parral; title: Silvia Canovas Mesa; title: Sonia Toledo Loaiza; title: Silvia Fernandez Stein; title: English version.