Abstract
The article concerns contemporary folk art in Peru and Bolivia. The local retablos are described, their history from colonial period and their new functions in the present time are presented. Traditional products of artesanía have been converted from sacred objects into ones that comment actual political-social changes. The author focuses on examples from the civil war period in Peru 1980–2000 and these from 2005–2009 from Bolivia. Peruvian retablos from Ayacucho region show tragic events of civil war, violence against indigenous Indians, fights and women tragic fate. Bolivian retablos show different type of events – Evo Morales access to power and watershed changes in Bolivian society in which subjectivity of indigenous Indians were restored.
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