I am going to discuss some of the Outsider Art from several different countries presented here.
Pages 32-54.
These are quilt type of artworks done in a very primitive manner,no perspective,child like images all stitched and very colorful....the disappeared people ,this trauma of Santiago when working people,normal day to day workers disappeared after a coup censorship of every kind was prevalent and of course in the arts.traditional decorating of bags and baskets using brightly colored wool(as I have incorporated into my collages) as these political artworks emerged they were seized,of course by the police.of course these women and grandmothers disappeared and were never heard of again.
These were These quilts show the people taken prisoners and hugging their families and sadness if felt in these naive quilts.These working day women who made many of these lived in squatters areas trying to improve their lives...a beautiful blue quilt with doves flying towards the sun says"Never Give in or stray away from the road"page 35.In Chile in 1973-1984-A patchwork of a series of smaller quilts were made and recounts the day one of The Coup..it documents the endless search for relatives gone missing.. a black square in many of thee is symbolic for an unknown place as the anguish of not knowing... "We lack solidarity"is printed on one quilt...,one shows a woman on a telephone saying day after day on the telephone with no news..,one patchwork exposes a very brutal crime by the secret police which happened in to a young woman who was said to have dies while planting a bomb but the truth as with many other women is she was beaten to death by the secret police with an iron..there is on the quilt a large hand sewn offering flowers.The last one I will describe is the one about showing women chained to the railings of National congress in Santiago to demand full punishment for all of these killings and their are pictures of the missing relatives embroidered above the womens' heads.
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