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MILTON, Cynthia E.
Images of Truth: Art as a Medium for Recounting Peru’s Internal War
2009
A Contra corriente
victims, art, shining path, peruvian army, paints
Resumen:
| A lone woman walks as she wipes tears from her eyes with one hand. In her other hand, she holds absent-mindedly a wool spinner. One of her shoes is broken. Her back is slightly hunched forward, not from the weight of her satchel, but from her sadness. This drawing, done in either pencil or pastel, is entitled “Behind the shadow of pain” (“Tras la sombra del dolor”). |
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| While there are no direct scenes of violence, the pain of this woman and of her community is inscribed on her body. Her pain is visible |
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| to us, such is the capacity of art to recount experience. Art offers a powerful means of non-verbal expression. This article considers visual arts in the sharing of individual and collective memories of Peru’s recent conflict. Two central premises underlie this investigation into art in post-Shining Path Peru: firstly, art acts as a mode of communication, and secondly, from this communication, we can complement our historical understanding of Peru’s internal war. This study thus calls for an expansion of the archive to include other repositories of memory and history, beyond state-produced and written records. |
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IMÁGENES DE VERDAD: EL ARTE COMO MEDIO PARA NARRAR LA GUERRA INTERNA DEL PERÚ
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