Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822369387)

In Eros Ideologies Laura E. P rez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of the interdependence of all life-forms, she writes of the decolonial as an ongoing project rooted in love as an ideology to frame respectful coexistence of social and cultural diversity. In readings of art that includes self-portraits by Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cerv ntez, the drawings and paintings of Chilean American artist Liliana Wilson, and Favianna Rodriguez's screen-printed images, P rez identifies art as one of the most valuable laboratories for creating, imagining, and experiencing new forms of decolonial thought. Such art expresses what P rez calls eros ideologies: understandings of social and natural reality that foreground the centrality of respect and care of self and others as the basis for a more democratic and responsible present and future. Employing a range of writing styles and voices--from the poetic to the scholarly--P rez shows how art can point to more just and loving ways of being.

Author: Laura E. P駻ez
ISBN-10: 0822369389
ISBN-13: 9780822369387
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2019
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d