The collection makes inroads into documenting multidisciplinary artists whose works have motivated movements, connected people and ideas, and enacted localized and broad-based change.
~H-Net Reviews
The most dynamic and methodologically creative book I have read in any language on the cultural Cold War in the Americas…a book that will set new standards on how we understand Cold War Latin America.
~Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies
[The Art of Solidarity] provides thought-provoking case studies of the role of art in solidarity movements.
~The Americas
[The Art of Solidarity] offers a new angle to solitary studies by emphasizing visual culture and performance art…The collection as a whole will be of special interest to scholars engaged with Latin America, solidarity, the Cold War era, art and performance studies, labor, gender and sexuality, transnational history, activism, and human rights.
~Hispanic American Historical Review
Taken as a whole, The Art of Solidarity is reaching in the right direction, toward a consideration of empathy and also affects...Scholars interested [in] arts activism, social movements, human rights, and transitional justice should consider this anthology for their research and teaching.
~Artelogie
This book makes a unique and useful contribution to scholarship on social movements, solidarity, and art activism. The focus on the way that arts can contribute to creating solidarity, and the time frame covered, gives the collection a distinctive perspective.
~Edward J. McCaughan, Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University, author of Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán
This edited volume will make a significant addition to a number of disciplines and literatures. Historians—of Latin America, art, literary and photography studies, sociology, Latin American studies, performance studies—will have a stake in this volume, in terms of theorizing in relation to the category of solidarity and demonstrating how solidarity is a social relationship, historically situated, that is significant to unpack in order to consider it as a transnational and deeply local engagement with social change.
~Alan Eladio Gómez, Arizona State University, author of The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico: Chicana/o Radicalism, Solidarity Politics, and Latin American Social Movements
