{"product_id":"tears-for-tears-aesthetics-in-grief-minor-hardcover","title":"Tears for Tears: Aesthetics in Grief Minor - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandra Ruiz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow minoritarian artists grapple with both personal and collective grief\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTears for Tears\u003c\/i\u003e documents moments of tension, negotiation, transformation, and incommensurability between singular loss and mass death through the work of contemporary minoritarian artists. These artists interrogate the cultural, social, and political enmeshment of death by questioning the interior and exterior conditions of loss Charting communal, singular, ongoing, and impending loss due to state-sanctioned violence, colonial racial capitalism, natural disaster, and social and personal circumstances, Sandra Ruiz underscores the affective entanglements across death that reshape the topography of grief into portals of possibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from original interviews, familial artifacts, images, and personal archival notes of artists-much of which have never been written about before-the project centers the minoritarian artist as living with and against death in everyday life and art practice. In doing so, the manuscript stages an archival and ideological intervention into the life of grief for minoritarian subjects and artists.\u003cbr\u003eMoving across performance and video art, sculpture, dance, music, theatre, and poetry, Ruiz highlights the relationship between everyday life and staged events as a critical lens to rethink structures of colonial and imperial spatial temporalities of grief. Offering invaluable insights into the production of these works and performances, Ruiz reveals how these artists move across social, corporeal, and psychic constructions of sorrow in their art practices-often working from parental loss into the domain of communal death-and see grieving, however painful, as an act of empowerment, transformation, growth, and communal building.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSandra Ruiz\u003c\/b\u003e is Sue Divan Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre and English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ruiz is the author of \u003ci\u003eRicanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLeft Turns in Brown Study\u003c\/i\u003e, and the coeditor of the book series \u003ci\u003eMinoritarian\u003cbr\u003eAesthetics.\u003c\/i\u003e Ruiz is also the producer of La Estación Gallery and the Minor Aesthetics Lab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837597016261,"sku":"9781479826650","price":160.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/PG-hRW03B69781479826650.webp?v=1771281823","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/tears-for-tears-aesthetics-in-grief-minor-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}