Ofrenda : Liliana Wilson's art of dissidence and dreams / Norma E. Cantu, editor ; foreword by Ricardo Romo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Liliana, 1953- honouree.

Cantú, Norma E., 1947- editor.

Series:

Joe and Betty Moore Texas art series ; no. 17.

Joe and Betty Moore Texas art series ; number seventeen

Standardized Title:

Ofrenda (Texas A & M University Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--Texas--Austin.

Women artists.

Chilean American women--Texas--Austin.

Chilean American women.

Painting, American--Texas--20th century.

Painting, American.

Painting, American--Texas--21st century.

Art--Political aspects--United States.

Art.

Chile--History--Coup d'état, 1973--Art and the coup d'état.

Chile.

Wilson, Liliana, 1953-.

Wilson, Liliana.

Wilson, Liliana, 1953---Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Liliana Wilson's art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice. Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the political turmoil and repression in Chile in the 1970's and 1980's and who have become self-exiled artists working outside of Chile but who are still tied to the political period and to its issues and concerns. From a working class family that struggled financially, Wilson nonetheless was able to study law, which facilitated her successful immigration to the United States in 1977. She moved to Texas and in...

Contents:

Finding nepantla: Liliana Wilson, artivist / Norma E. Cantu

Ofrenda / Antonia Castaneda and Liliana Wilson

Bearing witness: their eyes anticipate the healing / Gloria E. Anzaldua

Las imagenes de Liliana Wilson / Marjorie Agosin, translated by Monica Bruno Galmozzi

Liliana Wilson: learning to live finally / Kay Turner

"Ella tiene su tono": conocimiento and mestiza consciousness in Liliana Wilson's art / Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Exiled creativity and immigrant aesthetics: the politically transformative work of Liliana Wilson / Guisela Latorre

The inviolate erotic in the paintings of Liliana Wilson / Laura E. Perez

A Chilean painter in the city of ideas: Liliana Wilson, memory recorder and dream shaper / George Vargas

Liliana Wilson: shards of the past in her oeuvre / Patricia Ruiz-Healy

Tango al que sopla la hoja / Lourdes Perez

The artwork.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Cantú, Norma E., 1947- Finding nepantla.

ISBN:

1-62349-222-X

OCLC:

896123453