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Gabriel Rivas, Art and Social Change Reader, Week 6

Call to The Artists of Latin America:
-Revolutionary Art does not carry a predetermined style; it is imbued with true creativity and affirms and defines the personality of a people and a culture.
-The militant attitude of the Latin American artist is as important as his work.
-The Revolution is a process that begins long before the seizure of power and continues far beyond it.
-They denounce the so-called neutrality of art.
-They denounce the dependence of the artists on the rigid mechanism of the commercial market, on the imposition of fashions and the aestheticism emanating from them;
Women’s Art: A Manifesto:
-Men have projected their image of women onto  science and art, word and image, fashion and architecture, social transportation and the division of labour, and in accordance with these medial patterns they gave shape to women.

-Women must participate in the construction of reality via the building blocks of media communication. this will not happen spontaneously or without resistance, it will require a fight.
-It will be time that women use art as a means of expression so as to influence the consciousness of all of us, let our ideas flow in the social construction of reality to create a human reality. 
-  we must destroy all these notions of love, faith, family, motherhood, companionship, which were not created by us and thus replace them with new ones in accordance with our sensibility, with our wishes.
-the arts can be understood as a medium of our self-definition adding new values to the arts. these values, transmitted via the cultural sign-process, will alter reality towards an accommodation of female needs.


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