Description: A biography of Artists Call, an influential 1980s artist group that protested US intervention in Latin America.
Review Quotes:
In this tour de force of socially engaged art history, Duganne illuminates how a vast and diverse group of artists came together in 1980s New York to denounce US intervention in Central America. Her analysis of the wide-ranging forms and exhibition strategies of artists working in transnational solidarity, from Hans Haacke and Nancy Spero to Jesús Romeo Galdámez, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, and Clarissa Sligh, radically expands the narrow channels in which the decade's art has been confined. Duganne shows how Artists Call's efforts matter for contemporary artists including Muriel Hasbun and Beatriz Cortez, in ways that will matter for students of art and art history alike.
--Jennifer Josten, University of Pittsburgh, author of Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico