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The graphic biography of a cultural icon whose feminist work changed art history until her controversial death.
About the author
Christine Redfern is an artist living and working in Montreal. Her drawings and animations have been screened and exhibited internationally. Her writing has appeared in local, national and international publications, such as: The Montreal Mirror, Canadian Art,, Globe & Mail, National Post, ARTnews, and Contemporary in London. Her interviews with contemporary artists appear each Saturday in the Montreal Gazette, where she is currently the writer on visual arts.
Illustrator, painter, and cartoonist, Caro Caron has also been a body painter and a professional make-up artist for the past fifteen years. Published notably in the Cyclops anthologies, King Can, comix, Awaye Dzigidzine!, Mr. Ferraille and Hôpital Brut (Dernier Cri).
Lucy Lippard is an internationally known curator, artist, and writer. Her awards and fellowships include: the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Mather Award, and two National Endowment for the Arts in criticism. Lippard has written twenty books and written art criticism for Art in America, the Village Voice, In These Times, and Z Magazine. She has also curated over 50 exhibitions and founded artist organizations such as Printed Matter, the Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution, and Artists Call against US Intervention in Central America.
Summary
This fiery account of Ana Mendieta is also a snapshot of the turbulent times in which she lived. In exile from revolutionary Cuba, Ana Mendieta found in the 1960s US another kind of social upheaval: Frida Kahlo was finally being appreciated as an artist, not just a muse; Valerie Solanas wrote her manifesto, then shot Andy Warhol; Carolee Schneemann performed nude and pulled a feminist scroll out of her vagina. And Ana Mendieta began creating what she called "earth-body art," revolutionary work that explored issues of gender and cultural activity. In 1985, at the height of her success, she plunged to her death from the window of the New York City apartment she shared with her husband, artist Carl Andre. He was tried and acquitted of her murder.
These vibrantly drawn pages chronicle how the women's art movement changed the way we look at the female body in art and in the world. Redfern and Caron bring luminaries and the conflicts that inspired them to blazing life, telling us not only who is Ana Mendieta, but why we need to know.
Foreword
Publicity campaign to indie, arts, alternative, radical, and review media
The book is being simultaneously released in French—Les Éditions remue-ménage (Montréal/Canada)—and English; will be working with Les Éditions on events and promotion of both editions
Exhibit/opening in Brooklyn, NY. Outreach to institutions and galleries for events (possible exhibition of Caron’s original drawings and speaker series) and promotion
Tour to art and activism spaces on the East Coast: details TK
Marketing to museum and gallery stores.
Internet campaign to targeted high school and college art/history teachers
Featured at BEA, ALA, PLA, NWSA, and PCA/ACA
Co-op is available
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"Brings dynamism and creative kicks to the graphic biography... With its considered construction and vivid reportage, Who is Ana Mendieta? heralds a better possible future, for the graphic book, for the arts, for the record of history, and for the revolution." —The Rumpus
"Epic in scope and searing in detail, Who is Ana Mendieta? is fiercely expressionistic, bringing the reader into the exuberance and drama of Mendieta's passionate world."—Cristy C. Road, author of Spit and Passion
