Conceptualism as a political device?

You are invited to view the individual lectures of the course "A brief history of art in Latin America in the XX century". 

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About this Lecture: 

As authoritarian regimes started to escalate in Latin America during the 60s, artists began to reject the institutional artistic perspective that was, in most cases, controlled by the government. Artists made a dramatic shift towards conceptualism as a political resistance tool that would allow them to intervene in society and promote social change. Nevertheless, despite their attempts to reject traditional artistic languages, the mainstream academy has absorbed their emancipatory proposals as part of their institutional programme, creating questions on whether they achieved…