"Images of Truth : Art as a Medium for Recounting Violence in Peru"

Résumé :

Both during and after the war in Peru, art served as an important medium for recording and testifying to violence. These artforms included traditional expressions such as wooden retablos in Ayacucho, “pintura campesina,” and art solicited by NGOs in postwar contests held for youth to depict and "work through" their experiences (e.g. Rescate por la memoria in Ayacucho and Huancavelica). This presentation analyses some of these artforms for the historical narratives that they relate. It considers how historians might use art as an alternative form of truth-telling and historical sources for documenting and constructing narratives of past violence.