Werezi Books
Cart 0
Visionary Art of the Americas
Click to zoom

Share this book

Visionary Art of the Americas : Hemispheric Transculturations, Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics, and Mass Consumer Culture in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia

by Universidad Agustiniana Cadena Botero Juan David

Book Details

Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 1666934070
ISBN-13 9781666934076
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 28th, 2023
Print length 270 Pages
Weight 556 grams
Dimensions 16.00 x 23.60 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification: History of art / art & design stylesLiterary studies: generalHispanic & Latino studiesSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Ksh 16,650.00
Manufactured on Demand 0 in stock

Delivery Location

Delivery fee: Select location

Secure
Quality
Fast
Native and introduced hallucinogens channel hemispheric tensions between European, pre-Columbian, Black, and Indigenous values. This book explores those encounters by analyzing their depictions in media, arguing that artists used their mixed heritage to navigate porous boundaries ranging from consumer culture to political dissent.

Unlike their European predecessors in the experimentation with hallucinogens and aesthetics, many Latin American and North American authors turned to hallucinatory practices and substances as elements of their own hemispheric heritage. The twentieth-century narratives analyzed in Visionary Art of the Americas: Hemispheric Transculturations, Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Consumer Culture in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia only acquire their true depth once viewed within a much wider realm of visionary traditions ranging from non-Western sources in both the Orient and Africa to traditions in the Americas. Socially and culturally marginalized alongside their users, hallucinogens—simultaneously a colonial anathema and a sacred pre-Columbian ritual—have gained increasingly mainstream acceptance and support. The variety of films and texts analyzed in this book attest to the true heterogeneity of hallucinogenic experience in the Americas; scholarly attention to hallucinogens as the ultimate expression of organic intelligence is more important than ever.

Get Visionary Art of the Americas by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and it has pages.

Mind, Body, & Spirit

The Mamba Mentality

The Mamba Mentality

Shopping Cart

Africa largest book store

Sub Total:
Ebooks

Digital Library
Coming Soon

Our digital collection is currently being curated to ensure the best possible reading experience on Werezi. We'll be launching our Ebooks platform shortly.