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Cecilia Vicuna: Word Weapons
Cecilia Vicuna: Word Weapons
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Vicuñas' Palabrarmas series combines poetry, art, and activism to explore the power of language and reveal hidden meanings. Through collages, silk screens, drawings, poems, fabric banners, cutouts, mixed-media installations, and street actions, Vicuña deconstructs single words to reveal other words, creating new meanings and promoting liberation. This clothbound book presents a range of Palabrarmas in color for the first time, with new essays by Mónica de la Torre, Carla Macchiavello, Cecilia Vicuña, and Jeanne Gerrity, and reprinted texts by René Daumal, Robert Randall, and Simón Rodríguez.
Format: Hardback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 05 September 2023
Publisher: California College of Arts
At once poetry, art, and activism, Vicuña's playful multimedia works open up minds by opening up words. This beautifully designed clothbound book brings together the Palabrarmas series by the Chilean-born artist, poet, and activist Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948). Images of these works—each a powerful juxtaposition of color, poetry, and politics—appear alongside new essays and historical references chosen with the artist. Palabrarmas, a neologism that translates to "word weapons" or "word arms," imagine new ways of seeing language. Taking the form of collages, silkscreens, drawings, poems, fabric banners, cutouts, mixed-media installations, and street actions, Vicuña's Palabarmas bring together her work in poetry, activism, and visual art. Each one unpacks and deconstructs single words to reveal other words hiding within them, allowing new meanings to emerge. The artist began making these visual anagrams while in exile in London and Bogotá after the Pinochet-led coup of 1973 in Chile, and has always seen them as a form of liberation—as a way to open up minds by opening up words, as she puts it.
The Palabarmas have taken on new relevance in today's political climate, and appeared on the streets during Chile's 2019 revolution as protest signs. This book presents a range of Palabrarmas in color for the first time, with new essays by Mónica de la Torre, Carla Macchiavello, Cecilia Vicuña, and Jeanne Gerrity, and reprinted texts by René Daumal, Robert Randall, and Simón Rodríguez.
Weight: 602g
Dimension: 210 x 261 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9798986781204
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