Paulina Caro Troncoso – Towards a Transregional Approach in Art History: Artistic Solidarity in the 1960s and 1970s

Responding to the thematic field of “History,” this session will discuss the importance of transregional approaches in art history today. Informed by recent studies on networks of artistic solidarity during the Cold War, this session will explore how manifestations of artistic solidarity in the 1960s and 1970s can allow us to articulate a more horizontal approach to the discipline. Through case studies (e.g., artists, artworks, exhibitions), this session will seek to conceptualise artistic solidarity and explore its potential as an art historical framework that could offer new perspectives on the intersections of art, culture, and politics in Latin America and other regions.

Readings:

1. Andrea Giunta and George F. Flaherty. “Latin American Art History: An Historiographic Turn.” Art in Translation 9, no. 1 (2017): 121–142.

2. Andrea Giunta. Contra el canon: el arte contemporáneo en un mundo sin centro. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2020. (Also available in English).

3. Jessica Stites Mor. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023.

4. Paula Barreiro López. “Cultural Guerrilla: Tricontinental Genealogies of ’68.” In Transnational Solidarity Anticolonialism in the Global Sixties, edited by Cathy Bergin, Francesca Burke, and Zeina Maasri. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.

5. Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salṭi. Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity, and Museums-in-Exile. Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2018.

Paulina Caro Troncoso has recently completed her doctoral thesis examining the 1960s and 1970s work of Chilean-born surrealist artist Roberto Sebastian Matta. Paulina holds an MA in History of Art from University College London, an MA in Visual Arts, and a BA in English Literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has published peer-reviewed articles in The Bulletin of Latin American Research and the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. She has also contributed essays to The Routledge Companion to Surrealism (2022), edited by Kirsten Strom, and Surrealism and the Tarot (2024), edited by Tessel M. Bauduin.

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