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SSStttooonnnyyy BBBrrrooooookkk UUUnnniiivvveeerrrsssiiitttyyy The official electronic file of this thesis or dissertation is maintained by the University Libraries on behalf of The Graduate School at Stony Brook University. ©©© AAAllllll RRRiiiggghhhtttsss RRReeessseeerrrvvveeeddd bbbyyy AAAuuuttthhhooorrr... Marking the Territory: Performance, video, and conceptual graphics in Chilean art, 1975-1985 A Dissertation Presented by Carla Macchiavello to The Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Art History and Criticism Stony Brook University May 2010 Stony Brook University The Graduate School Carla Macchiavello We, the dissertation committee for the above candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, hereby recommend acceptance of this dissertation. Donald B. Kuspit, Distinguished Professor, Art History and Criticism Joseph Monteyne, Associate Professor, Art History and Criticism John Lutterbie, Associate Professor, Art History and Criticism María José Montalva, Art Historian, Doctor of Philosophy University of Essex This dissertation is accepted by the Graduate School Lawrence Martin Dean of the Graduate School ii Abstract of the Dissertation Marking the Territory: Performance, video, and conceptual graphics in Chilean art, 1975-1985 by Carla Macchiavello Doctor in Philosophy in Art History and Criticism Stony Brook University 2010 In this dissertation I examine the links between the body and the territory in Chilean Performance Art, video practices, and conceptual graphics between 1975 and 1985. During ten years in the midst of Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship, the body and national space were two notions intimately tied to a range of new art forms in which different concepts of identity were negotiated. In the works of Carlos Leppe, Eugenio Dittborn, Carlos Altamirano, Lotty Rosenfeld, and Gonzalo Mezza the corporeal was understood as a space where the repressive political regime could be contested and the self’s contradictory relation to the territory and nation be exposed.
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