The other Fridas : the lives and works of Latin American women artists / edited by Luciana Namorato, Debora Thome, and João Nemi Neto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Namorato, Luciana, Editor.

Thomé, Débora, Editor.

Neto, João Nemi, Editor, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--Latin America--Biography.

Women artists.

Arts, Latin American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025]

Summary:

"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." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Other Fridas / Luciana Namorato and Débora Thomé

Section I: Art as Image. Out from the Shadows : Vida, Trabajo y Legado de Lola Álvarez Bravo / Ann Marie Leimer ; The Unseen Cancerous Body : Challenging the Normative Eroticized Breast in the Photo Book Recursos Humanos (2000), by Gabriela Liffschitz / Rosita Scerbo ; Luisa Géigel Brunet, 1916–2008 : Hidden Icon of the Arts in Puerto Rico / Yamila Azize-Vargas ; The Mythological Consciousness of Belkis Ayón : A Path for Resistance / Elvira Aballí Morell ; 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. Guadalupe Marín and the texto desmadrado / Alysa Schroff ; Yolanda Bedregal : On Women’s Writing / Maria Elva Echenique ; Astrid H. Roemer : Postcolonial Writing in the Black Diaspora / Ben De Witte ; Freedom Lost, Freedom Found in the Poetry of Delmira Agustini and Juana de Ibarbourou / Anastasiya Stoyneva

Section III: Art as Form. Embroidering Folk Culture : Violeta Parra’s Art / Lorna Dillon ; Metal Bodies : Discourses on the Body in the Work in Metal of Contemporary Peruvian Women Artists / Gabriela Germaná ; 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. Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Women in Cinema : Sônia Braga and Sara Gómez / Sandra Sousa ; Maria Velluti’s Mise-en-Scène : Translating a Woman Dramatist in Nineteenth-century Brazil / Luciana Carvalho Fonseca and Dennys Silva-Reis ; Cannibalism, Lygia Clark’s Body, and her Anthropophagic Slobber / João Nemi Neto

Section V: Art as Sound. A Musical Constellation : Sorority and Authorship in the Work of Dona Ivone / Lara Mila Burns.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Other Fridas

ISBN:

9781666963045

1666963046

OCLC:

1462229146

Publisher Number:

CIPO000196511