Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished

Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished - Paperback

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Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished - Paperback

Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished - Paperback

by Florencia San Martín
$59.94
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Book Overview

by Florencia San Martín (Author), Wolfgang Kaleck (Foreword by)

In Alfredo Jaar, the first critical academic survey devoted to the prominent Chilean-born artist, Florencia San Martín shows how his work takes up mourning, accountability, and failure, offering a new model for how to think about global contemporary art today.

In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martín analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity that obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. San Martín argues that Jaar's work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of the violent systems we inhabit. His art, she maintains, is informed by and responds to two interconnected historical events relevant to his own life: the US-backed military coup that established Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile and the implementation around the world of the corollary neoliberal economic system. San Martín explores the key themes in Jaar's artistic practice--mourning, accountability, and failure--which situates the victims of the Chilean regime in a global context, directly confronts the architects of atrocity, and questions how ideas of diversity and inclusion have been co-opted by modern neoliberal discourses. Alfredo Jaar enables us to reimagine art history, offering a fresh paradigm with which to think about global contemporary art.

Author Biography

Florencia San Martín is Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University.

Wolfgang Kaleck is the founder as well as general secretary for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
Number of Pages: 280
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: July 14, 2026
ISBN9781478038788
Author Florencia San Martín
PublisherDuke University Press
GenreNews & politics, Education, Arts, and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages280
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Art History Nonfiction Political Science Social Science

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