Repensar el conceptualismo: vanguardia, activismo y política

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This volume, edited by Katerina Valdivia Bruch, is a compilation of critical  essays on the development of conceptualism in Latin America between the  1960s and 1980s. In this context, a group of artists committed to social  change put into practice alternative forms of political action that  involved questioning power structures and promoting solidarity and  justice among different communities.

The  book offers new perspectives on Latin American conceptualism, with  examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru,  and Uruguay. It highlights the contributions of local artists and  thinkers whose proposals, in dialogue with other Latin American  contexts, challenged the paradigms of international art and developed  their own categories that reflected the uniqueness of their practices.

Among  the topics covered are the emergence of critical positions for  examining art from a Latin American perspective, the creation of new  terminologies, the recovery of archives, the defence of historical  memory, the proposals of third cinema, as well as exchanges with  cultural diplomacy programmes and internationalism.

These approaches address Latin American conceptualism not only as an  aesthetic movement but primarily as a process of knowledge production  that integrates theoretical reflection with artistic practice, actively  responding to the political and intellectual debates of its time.

Contributors: Oscar Ardila Luna · Joaquín Barriendos · Claudia Calirman · Fernanda  Carvajal · Luis Camnitzer · Miguel Errazu · Cecilia Fajardo-Hill · María  Mercedes Herrera Buitrago · Cecilia Lacruz · Lisette Lagnado · María  Linares · Ana Longoni · Jorge Lopera · Vania Markarian & Julio  Cabrio · Mariano Mestman · Gerardo Mosquera · Katerina Valdivia Bruch ·  Víctor Vich

Print-on-demand (POD): ISBN 978-3-00-083610-7 

E-book: ISBN 978-3-00-083860-6

333 pages 

90 images (colour and b/w) 

Spanish edition 

Berlin: Pluriverse Press, 2025

Pluriverse Press is an independent publisher connecting art, research, and education that merge scholarship and creative practice. We are interested in research fields that challenge dominant art-historical narratives and advance dialogues across diverse intellectual traditions and artistic practices. One of our aims is to broaden the field of art studies, creating space for new voices, methodologies, and perspectives in global art histories. From essays and monographs to hybrid projects, we consider publishing as a space for inquiry, dialogue, and innovation across disciplines and communities.

Pluriverse Press es una editorial independiente que conecta el arte, la investigación y  la educación, fusionando el conocimiento académico con la práctica  creativa. Nos interesan los campos de investigación que desafían las  narrativas dominantes de la historia del arte y promueven el diálogo  entre diversas tradiciones intelectuales y prácticas artísticas. Uno de  nuestros objetivos es ampliar el campo de los estudios artísticos,  creando un espacio para nuevas voces, metodologías y perspectivas de la  historia del arte global. Desde ensayos y monografías hasta proyectos  híbridos, consideramos la edición como un espacio para la investigación,  el diálogo y la innovación entre disciplinas y comunidades.