Violeta Parra : life and work / edited by Lorna Dillon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dillon, Lorna, editor.

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 371.

Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias ; 371

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parra, Violeta, 1917-1967--Criticism and interpretation.

Parra, Violeta.

Parra, Violeta, 1917-1967.

Popular music--Chile--1951-1960--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Art, Chilean--20th century.

Art, Chilean.

Art, Latin American--20th century.

Art, Latin American.

Women artists--Latin America.

Women artists.

Criticism and interpretation.

Chile.

Latin America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 199 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk : Tamesis, 2017.

Summary:

Violeta Parra was an extraordinary figure. She is best known for her contribution to the Latin American New Song movement and for her visual art, which was exhibited in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs of the Louvre gallery in 1964. Parra spent her early career singing Mexican songs in bars and researching traditional Chilean culture. All the different phases of Parra's life and work are discussed in this book, with analyses of her music, paintings, sculptures, embroideries (arpilleras), and poetry. Her exhibition in the Louvre gallery and the music venue that she set up before she died, La Carpa de la Reina, are also covered. Among the individual essays collected here are seminal works by Patricio Manns and Leonidas Morales, which have been translated into English for the first time. These works introduce the historical and biographical context for Parra's work. Other essays feature the latest research and findings by Catherine Boyle, Ericka Verba, Paula Miranda, Serda Yalkin, Romina A. Green, and Lorna Dillon. The book also includes an interview with Violeta Parra's brother, the influential poet Nicanor Parra and a Foreword by Marjorie Agosin.

Contents:

Foreword / Marjorie Agosín

Introduction / Lorna Dillon

Violeta Parra: the genesis of her art / Leónidas Morales

Extracts from La guitarra indócil (The unruly guitar) / Patricio Manns

Conversation with Nicanor Parra about Violeta / Leónidas Morales

Back in the days when she sang Mexican songs on the radio... before Violeta Parra was Violeta Parra / Ericka Verba

Violeta Parra, creative researcher / Paula Miranda

Unearthing Violeta Parra: counter-memory, rupture and authenticity outside of the modern / Romina A. Green-Rioja

Violeta Parra at the Louvre: the 'naive' as a strategy of the authentic / Serda Yalkin

Violeta Parra's contribution to the 1960s art scene / Lorna Dillon

Violeta Parra and the empty space of La Carpa de la Reina / Catherine Boyle

Conclusion: Violeta Parra's legacy / Gina Canepa and Lorna Dillon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781855663213

185566321X

OCLC:

1004725067