From Axayácatl to El Chapo: Rethinking Migration and Mexico’s War on Drugs in Gabriel Garcilazo’s Dystopic Magical Codex

In this conversation between Gabriel Garcilazo and Adriana Miramontes Olivas, Garcilazo explains his interest in appropriating popular culture and historical documents such as the sixteenth-century Codex Azcatitlan. His artwork Dystopic Magical Codex (2015) examines the recent war on drugs in Mexic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Adriana Miramontes Olivas, Gabriel Garcilazo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2019-10-01
Series:Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture
Online Access:http://contemporaneity.pitt.edu/ojs/contemporaneity/article/view/284