Open-access The Art and Poetry of Mercedes Resch in the Face of the Historical Threat of the Great Drought

Abstract

This article aims to investigate about the relationships between art, poetry, land, landscape and territory from the visual pieces of the artist, poet and teacher Mercedes Resch, a resident of Cura Malal, a rural town in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a solid geographical and historical witness to the long process of national modernization that, from the beginning of the 20th century to its current neoliberal present, has exposed the land of that place to a violent patriarchal desertification campaign. The work of Mercedes Resch will allow us to explore, on the contrary, a landscape full of latent life forms that permanently resist the historical threat of the great drought.

Keywords Art and poetry; Desert; Landscape; Land; Territory

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