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Creating an invaluable archive, Laura E. P rez examines the work of more than forty Chicana artists across a variety of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance, photography, film and video, comics, sound recording, interactive CD-ROM, altars and other installation forms, and fiction, poetry, and plays. While key works from the 1960s and 1970s are discussed, most of the pieces considered were produced between 1985 and 2001. Providing a rich interpretive framework, P rez describes how Chicana artists invoke a culturally hybrid spirituality to challenge racism, bigotry, patriarchy, and homophobia. They make use of, and often radically rework, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican and other non-Western notions of art and art-making, and they struggle to create liberating versions of familiar iconography such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Sacred Heart. Filled with representations of spirituality and allusions to non-Western visual and cultural traditions, the work of these Chicana artists is a vital contribution to a more inclusive canon of American arts.
Author: Laura E. P駻ez
ISBN-10: 0822338688
ISBN-13: 9780822338680
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2007
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 8.73h x 6.37w x 0.87d
Review Citation(s):
Poder Hispanic 10/01/2007 pg. 78
Laura E. P駻ez is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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