Visual Disobedience: Art And Decoloniality in Central America by Kency Cornejo

May 22, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming release of “Visual Disobedience: Art And Decoloniality in Central America” by Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor of Art History, as part of the Dissident Acts Series published by Duke University Press. Scheduled for release on October 18, 2024, this book showcases the works of 40 artists and over 80 artworks from Central America, all engaging in artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of empire.

Visual Disobedience book cover

For a sneak peek, you can read the Introduction on the Duke University Press’s website.

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