Title: Aura latente
Description: The work of critic and anthropologist Ticio Escobar (Asunción 1947) makes it clear many and valuable potentials of the condition of artistic work; in what is the most "globalized" of his works. Although independent, the essays that make up this book are connected through three topics that cross them transversally and link their contents: First, the criticism of Western aesthetics as a privileged source of art theory. Secondly, the concept of "Latency" in the sense of a virtuality contextualized art by established circuits and diverse cultural systems (practices, beliefs and diverse values) that needs to be activated. The third question concerns the link between art and politics.
Subjects: Modern Aesthetics, Art and society, History, Art and state, Modern Art, History and criticism
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century