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Papers by Horacio Legras
Anthem Press eBooks, Jun 14, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Apr 21, 2022
Memory politics and transitional justice, Sep 21, 2017
This chapter discusses the condition of the Paraguayan artist in relation to the concept of moder... more This chapter discusses the condition of the Paraguayan artist in relation to the concept of modern universal art by showing the intellectual trajectory of one of Paraguay’s most versatile figures: the painter Carlos Colombino. According to the author, Colombino’s multiple involvements with the vast spheres of culture, art and politics should not be understood as a construction in any positivist, accountable or determinable form. On the contrary, he argues that in Colombino’s artistic journey it was the gift of freedom that was always at stake: the hard-fought freedom of any Paraguayan to be an artist as well as the freedom of the artist to be Paraguayan. Ultimately, Legras re-elaborates the fundamental complexities that sustain art as an operation that intervenes in the struggle for freedom.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 30, 2022
Memory politics and transitional justice, Sep 21, 2017
This interview explores the multifaceted life of Paraguayan artist Carlos Colombino, highlighting... more This interview explores the multifaceted life of Paraguayan artist Carlos Colombino, highlighting his involvement in the creation of the Museo del Barro (the Museum of Mud) in Asuncion, an institution where modern, popular, and indigenous art coexist side by side. Although Colombino was a well-known painter, he was also an engraver, a sculptor, an architect, and a builder of cultural institutions. He published poems and novels, critical studies, and ethnographic pieces on indigenous and popular practices. He cultivated a passionate militancy for democracy, and experienced censorship, persecution, and exile on several occasions. In short, the interview shows how Colombino became an artist committed to the creation of an artistic and intellectual scene in Paraguay.
Nuevo texto crítico, 1995
The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, Jan 28, 2016
This series tackles one of the central issues of our time: the rise of large-scale social movemen... more This series tackles one of the central issues of our time: the rise of large-scale social movements and the transformation of society over the last thirty years. As global capitalism continues to affect broader segments of the world's population-workers, peasants, the selfemployed, the unemployed, the poor, indigenous peoples, women, and minority ethnic groups-there is a growing mass movement by the affected populations to address the inequities engendered by the globalization process. These popular mass movements across the globe (such as labor, civil rights, women's, environmental, indigenous, and anti-corporate globalization movements) have come to form a viable and decisive force to address the consequences of the operations of the transnational corporations and the global capitalist system. The study of these social movements-their nature, social base, ideology, and strategy and tactics of mass struggle-is of paramount importance if we are to understand the nature of the forces that are struggling to bring about change in the global economy, polity, and social structure. This series aims to explore emerging movements and develop viable explanations for the kind of social transformations that are yet to come.
Política Común, Dec 1, 2013
The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema, 2017
The Americas, 2019
Horacio Legrás asks how this happened: "Whole areas of Mexican life that were invisible or ideali... more Horacio Legrás asks how this happened: "Whole areas of Mexican life that were invisible or idealized before the revolution-including indigenous people, laboring women, homosexuals, children, peasants-acquired rights of visibility" during the 1920s and 1930s (4). This newfound visibility, he argues, resulted from a "surge of textuality as a modeling force" that linked "art and culture. .. with the process of state formation" (9). The author's treatment of "society as a text" yields some rich insights.
The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies
The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, 2016
Latin American Theatre Review, 2003
... populista." La cultura popular de fin de siglo XIX se conformó en tensión a dos ... ... more ... populista." La cultura popular de fin de siglo XIX se conformó en tensión a dos ... experiencia modernizadora argentina y de la constitución de una primera racionalidad política en referencia a ... las articulaciones posteriores.19 En su libro sobre el criollismo y la cultura popular del ...
Anthem Press eBooks, Jun 14, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Apr 21, 2022
Memory politics and transitional justice, Sep 21, 2017
This chapter discusses the condition of the Paraguayan artist in relation to the concept of moder... more This chapter discusses the condition of the Paraguayan artist in relation to the concept of modern universal art by showing the intellectual trajectory of one of Paraguay’s most versatile figures: the painter Carlos Colombino. According to the author, Colombino’s multiple involvements with the vast spheres of culture, art and politics should not be understood as a construction in any positivist, accountable or determinable form. On the contrary, he argues that in Colombino’s artistic journey it was the gift of freedom that was always at stake: the hard-fought freedom of any Paraguayan to be an artist as well as the freedom of the artist to be Paraguayan. Ultimately, Legras re-elaborates the fundamental complexities that sustain art as an operation that intervenes in the struggle for freedom.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 30, 2022
Memory politics and transitional justice, Sep 21, 2017
This interview explores the multifaceted life of Paraguayan artist Carlos Colombino, highlighting... more This interview explores the multifaceted life of Paraguayan artist Carlos Colombino, highlighting his involvement in the creation of the Museo del Barro (the Museum of Mud) in Asuncion, an institution where modern, popular, and indigenous art coexist side by side. Although Colombino was a well-known painter, he was also an engraver, a sculptor, an architect, and a builder of cultural institutions. He published poems and novels, critical studies, and ethnographic pieces on indigenous and popular practices. He cultivated a passionate militancy for democracy, and experienced censorship, persecution, and exile on several occasions. In short, the interview shows how Colombino became an artist committed to the creation of an artistic and intellectual scene in Paraguay.
Nuevo texto crítico, 1995
The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, Jan 28, 2016
This series tackles one of the central issues of our time: the rise of large-scale social movemen... more This series tackles one of the central issues of our time: the rise of large-scale social movements and the transformation of society over the last thirty years. As global capitalism continues to affect broader segments of the world's population-workers, peasants, the selfemployed, the unemployed, the poor, indigenous peoples, women, and minority ethnic groups-there is a growing mass movement by the affected populations to address the inequities engendered by the globalization process. These popular mass movements across the globe (such as labor, civil rights, women's, environmental, indigenous, and anti-corporate globalization movements) have come to form a viable and decisive force to address the consequences of the operations of the transnational corporations and the global capitalist system. The study of these social movements-their nature, social base, ideology, and strategy and tactics of mass struggle-is of paramount importance if we are to understand the nature of the forces that are struggling to bring about change in the global economy, polity, and social structure. This series aims to explore emerging movements and develop viable explanations for the kind of social transformations that are yet to come.
Política Común, Dec 1, 2013
The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema, 2017
The Americas, 2019
Horacio Legrás asks how this happened: "Whole areas of Mexican life that were invisible or ideali... more Horacio Legrás asks how this happened: "Whole areas of Mexican life that were invisible or idealized before the revolution-including indigenous people, laboring women, homosexuals, children, peasants-acquired rights of visibility" during the 1920s and 1930s (4). This newfound visibility, he argues, resulted from a "surge of textuality as a modeling force" that linked "art and culture. .. with the process of state formation" (9). The author's treatment of "society as a text" yields some rich insights.
The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies
The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, 2016
Latin American Theatre Review, 2003
... populista." La cultura popular de fin de siglo XIX se conformó en tensión a dos ... ... more ... populista." La cultura popular de fin de siglo XIX se conformó en tensión a dos ... experiencia modernizadora argentina y de la constitución de una primera racionalidad política en referencia a ... las articulaciones posteriores.19 En su libro sobre el criollismo y la cultura popular del ...
Cultural Antagonism, 2023
Excerpts of a new book on Latin American culture just published. In this book, I approach questio... more Excerpts of a new book on Latin American culture just published. In this book, I approach questions of gender, race, economic structures, feminicides, and photography in a Marxist and Psychoanalytic framework. Authors discussed include Jose Maria Arguedas, Lydia Cabrera, Fernando Ortiz, Miguel Angel Asturias, Roberto Bolano, among others