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Force of Wall

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dc.contributor.authorManderson, Desmond
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-05T23:07:05Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2022-01-23T07:17:36Z
dc.description.abstractRafael Cauduro's mural The Seven Crimes of Justice, situated in the Supreme Court of Mexico, speaks to the old problem of the relationship between art, politics and the State. In Mexico City, the birthplace of modern muralism, Rafael Cauduro confronts its ambivalent legacy and offers up new solutions. And at the same time, at the very heart of the legal system, Cauduro presents a critique of law and justice almost unprecedented in its uncompromising determination to lay bare the brutality of contemporary legal phenomena, not just in Mexico but around the world. This essay examines how Cauduro's aesthetic choices address the history of modern muralism, and how his thematic choices address the history of modern law. But above all, how do these two modes of representation, the visual and the legal, actually relate to one another? Murals and law have something in common-a belief in the force of walls. The Seven Crimes of Justice binds this common thematic together in a remarkable work that has to date attracted little critical attention. This essay gives it the attention it deserves, focusing on questions of time and memory, and of the relationship between the force of law and the force of art.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1535-685Xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/288160
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_AU
dc.rights© 2020 by The Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva Universityen_AU
dc.sourceLaw and Literatureen_AU
dc.subjectvisual studiesen_AU
dc.subjectmural arten_AU
dc.subjectMexicoen_AU
dc.subjectCauduroen_AU
dc.subjectRiveraen_AU
dc.subjectghostsen_AU
dc.titleForce of Wallen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage388en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage365en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationManderson, Desmond, ANU College of Law, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidManderson, Desmond, u1517515en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor360101 - Art criticismen_AU
local.identifier.absfor480403 - Law and humanitiesen_AU
local.identifier.absseo130103 - The creative artsen_AU
local.identifier.absseo230499 - Justice and the law not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB17049en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume33en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/1535685X.2020.1827522en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85094123020
local.identifier.thomsonID000583463000001
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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