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  1. Visionary art of the Americas
    hemispheric transculturations, hallucinogens, politics, aesthetics, and mass consumer culture in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia
    Author: Cadena Botero, Juan David
    Published: [2024]; © 2024
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham

    "Native and introduced hallucinogens channel hemispheric tensions between European, pre-Columbian, Black, and Indigenous values. This book explores those encounters by analyzing their depictions in media, arguing that artists used their mixed... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    "Native and introduced hallucinogens channel hemispheric tensions between European, pre-Columbian, Black, and Indigenous values. This book explores those encounters by analyzing their depictions in media, arguing that artists used their mixed heritage to navigate porous boundaries ranging from consumer culture to political dissent"-- "Unlike their European predecessors, many Latin American and North American authors turned to hallucinatory substances as elements of their own hemispheric heritage. The twentieth-century narratives analyzed in Visionary Art of the Americas: Hemispheric Transculturations, Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics, and Mass Consumer Culture in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia acquire their true depth only within a much wider realm of visionary traditions spanning Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Socially and culturally marginalized alongside users, hallucinogens—simultaneously a colonial anathema and a sacred pre-Columbian ritual—have gained increased mainstream acceptance. The various films and texts analyzed in this book attest to the true heterogeneity of hallucinogenic experience in the Americas at a time when scholarly attention to hallucination and visions as a survival adaptation of organic intelligence is crucial to understand its differences from A.I."--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781666934083
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; HU 1691 ; IQ 12162 ; IQ 37162
    Other subjects: Drugs and the arts / United States / History / 20th century; Drugs and the arts / Mexico / History / 20th century; Drugs and the arts / Colombia / History / 20th century; Arts and society / United States / History / 20th century; Arts and society / Mexico / History / 20th century; Arts and society / Colombia / History / 20th century; Drogues et arts / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle; Drogues et arts / Mexique / Histoire / 20e siècle; Drogues et arts / Colombie / Histoire / 20e siècle; Arts et société / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle; Arts et société / Mexique / Histoire / 20e siècle; Arts et société / Colombie / Histoire / 20e siècle; Arts and society; Drugs and the arts; Colombia; Mexico; United States; 1900-1999; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 258 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Überarbeitete Dissertation. - Dissertation unter dem Titel "Mestizo visionary art of the Americas in the late twentieth century. Hallucinogens, politics, aesthetics and mass consumer culture in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia"

    Dissertation, Columbia University, 2022

    Introduction : hallucination, psychedelia, and visions in the Americas and the arts -- The United States of America -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Epilogue: a tradition debating the real