Full Description
The Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different countries, and seeks to understand their artistic contributions and their complex lives. Frida Kahlo is one of the most recognizable women artists of the Western world and an icon of feminism. Yet, Latin America has produced many other women artists who, like Kahlo, challenged conventions of their day, transgressed gender stereotypes, and significantly contributed to cultural and artistic realms. Most have been overshadowed by their male counterparts; and while some have been recognized in their home countries, the vast majority have remained in obscurity at home and abroad. This collection brings together sixteen essays, and features such artists as Chilean composer Violeta Parra, Cuban painter Belkis Ayón, nineteenth-century Portuguese-Brazilian actress Maria Velluti, Puerto Rican painter and sculptor Luisa Géigel Brunet, and many more. This book celebrates the lives and creativity of these underrecognized artists, and the contributions that they have made towards Latin American art.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Other Fridas Luciana Namorato and Débora Thomé
Section I: Art as Image
Chapter 1: Out from the Shadows: Vida, Trabajo y Legado de Lola Álvarez Bravo Ann Marie Leimer
Chapter 2: The Unseen Cancerous Body: Challenging the Normative Eroticized Breast in the Photo Book Recursos Humanos (2000), by Gabriela Liffschitz (Rosita Scerbo)
Chapter 3: Luisa Géigel Brunet, 1916-2008: Hidden Icon of the Arts in Puerto Rico Yamila Azize-Vargas
Chapter 4: The Mythological Consciousness of Belkis Ayón: A Path for Resistance Elvira Aballí Morell
Chapter 5: Judith F. Baca before El Taller Siqueiros: Collective Production and the 1976 Section of The Great Wall of Los Angeles Andrea Lepage
Section II: Art as Text
Chapter 6: Guadalupe Marín and the texto desmadrado Alysa Schroff
Chapter 7: Yolanda Bedregal: On Women's Writing Maria Elva Echenique
Chapter 8: Astrid H. Roemer: Postcolonial Writing in the Black Diaspora Ben De Witte
Chapter 9: Freedom Lost, Freedom Found in the Poetry of Delmira Agustini and Juana de Ibarbourou Anastasiya Stoyneva
Section III: Art as Form
Chapter 10: Embroidering Folk Culture: Violeta Parra's Art Lorna Dillon
Chapter 11: Metal Bodies: Discourses on the Body in the Work in Metal of Contemporary Peruvian Women Artists Gabriela Germaná
Chapter 12: Redeeming Memory Through the Dysfunctional, Dis-United "No-Body": A Neo-Baroque Approach to Doris Salcedo's Artistic Work Andrea Villa Ruiz
Section IV: Art as Movement
Chapter 13: Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Women in Cinema: Sônia Braga and Sara Gómez Sandra Sousa
Chapter 14: Maria Velluti's Mise-en-Scène: Translating a Woman Dramatist in Nineteenth-century Brazil Luciana Carvalho Fonseca and Dennys Silva-Reis
Chapter 15: Cannibalism, Lygia Clark's Body, and her Anthropophagic Slobber João Nemi Neto
Section V: Art as Sound
Chapter 16: A Musical Constellation: Sorority and Authorship in the Work of Dona Ivone Lara Mila Burns
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