Ensayos sobre artes visuales

The series of books published annually by the el Centro de Documentación de las Artes Visuales (CEDOC, Centro Cultural de la Moneda) are the result of the contests of research trials organized annually since 2010. The texts presented in this volume were selected from the V Concurso de Ensayos de Investigación, held in 2014. This fifth volume proposes a thematic and chronological turn around the study of the recent Visual Arts on the art of the democratic transition and the debates and artistic processes of the1980's and 1990's in Chile. On this occasion, this authors questioned the existence of a new beginning during the 1990œs, hardened underground by the political and artistic activisms dissident of the authoritarian rule since the 1980's, and the processes of social recomposition and the visibility of demands in the 1990's.