Description: Mapping the varied artistic practices in Brazil during the most repressive years of the nation's military dictatorship, this illuminating study draws on information theory, art history, cultural studies, and the social sciences to trace how artistic pract
Brief description: Elena Shtromberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah.
Review Quotes: Rich in insightful historical details, Art Systems is an extremely valuable tool for researchers interested not only in the cultural politics of the 1970s but also in how the discourses and debates of this period constitute the roots of the current crisis and the artistic responses it has elicited.-- "Journal of Latin American Studies" (5/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)