Space of Latin American Women Modernists

This book offers a fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space. By analysing the contributions of eight contemporaneous women - four writers and four plastic artists - it reveals how they constructed and conceived of their identities as cultural practitioners through distinctly spatial tactics. Organised around four spatial themes (domestic architecture, the natural world, travel and the public sphere), this multidisciplinary, comparative monograph sheds new light on the works of well-known figures such as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, while recuperating artists that remain virtually unknown, such as Bolivian sculptor Marina Núñez del Prado. Through discussion of their work within a transnational context, this study positions these Latin American women practitioners within a broader narrative of modernism from which they have often remained absent.

About the author

Camilla Sutherland is assistant professor of Spanish Culture and Literature, and co-director of the Mexico Study Centreat the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Camilla Sutherland
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2024
• EAN: 9781837721085
• ISBN: 978-1-83772-108-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; american, Women, Space, Latin America, Camilla, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Latin, ART / History / General, SUTHERLAND, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Women, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, ART / Women Artists, HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of art / art & design styles, of, History of Art, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Individual artists, art monographs, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Modernists