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Spanish, Portuguese

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oai:doaj.org/article:7c9f12aafbdb427c9af06bd407fb9437

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10.22370/panambi.2018.7.1136

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The artistic perspective of social violence in Mexico in the last century

Abstract

Social violence has been a recurring theme in Mexican art from the 1920s to today. Interpreting historical periods marked by social conflict, artists have described social victimisation as a result of confrontation of hegemonic and subalternating political forces. From a historical perspective, mural painting and artistic graphics have represented the social violence that originates in the Iberian conquest of indigenous communities, the confrontation between the landmark oligarchy and the peasant movement during the Mexican Revolution, the State’s coercion against social dissidents in the post-revolutionary era and the current ‘war’ against the population, as a result of the practice of criminal drug trafficking groups and government corruption. It is therefore important to set out briefly the most relevant moments in the artistic representation of social violence in Mexico and highlight the graphic work of artist Emiliano Martínez Guerrero (1988), for illustrating the symbolic perspective of the representation of the bloody circumstances currently affecting Mexican society.

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