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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. This collection brings together sixteen essays, and features such artists as Chilean composer Violeta Parra, Cuban painter Belkis Ayón, nineteenth-century Portuguese-Brazilian actress Maria Velluti, Puerto Rican painter and sculptor Luisa Géigel Brunet, and many more. This book celebrates the lives and creativity of these underrecognized artists, and the contributions that they have made towards Latin American art.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Other Fridas
Luciana Namorato and Débora ThoméSection I: Art as Image
Chapter 1: Out from the Shadows: Vida, Trabajo y Legado de Lola Álvarez Bravo
Ann Marie Leimer
Chapter 2: The Unseen Cancerous Body: Challenging the Normative Eroticized Breast in the Photo Book Recursos Humanos (2000), by Gabriela Liffschitz (
Rosita Scerbo)
Chapter 3: Luisa Géigel Brunet, 1916-2008: Hidden Icon of the Arts in Puerto Rico Yamila Azize-Vargas
Chapter 4: The Mythological Consciousness of Belkis Ayón: A Path for Resistance
Elvira Aballí MorellChapter 5: Judith F. Baca before El Taller Siqueiros: Collective Production and the 1976 Section of The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Andrea LepageSection II: Art as Text
Chapter 6: Guadalupe Marín and the texto desmadrado
Alysa SchroffChapter 7: Yolanda Bedregal: On Women's Writing
Maria Elva EcheniqueChapter 8: Astrid H. Roemer: Postcolonial Writing in the Black Diaspora
Ben De WitteChapter 9: Freedom Lost, Freedom Found in the Poetry of Delmira Agustini and Juana de Ibarbourou
Anastasiya StoynevaSection III: Art as Form
Chapter 10: Embroidering Folk Culture: Violeta Parra's Art
Lorna DillonChapter 11: Metal Bodies: Discourses on the Body in the Work in Metal of Contemporary Peruvian Women Artists
Gabriela GermanáChapter 12: Redeeming Memory Through the Dysfunctional, Dis-United "No-Body": A Neo-Baroque Approach to Doris Salcedo's Artistic Work
Andrea Villa RuizSection IV: Art as Movement
Chapter 13: Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Women in Cinema: Sônia Braga and Sara Gómez
Sandra SousaChapter 14: Maria Velluti's Mise-en-Scène: Translating a Woman Dramatist in Nineteenth-century Brazil
Luciana Carvalho Fonseca and Dennys Silva-ReisChapter 15: Cannibalism, Lygia Clark's Body, and her Anthropophagic Slobber
João Nemi NetoSection V: Art as Sound
Chapter 16: A Musical Constellation: Sorority and Authorship in the Work of Dona Ivone
Lara Mila BurnsAbout the Contributors
About the author
Luciana Namorato is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. Débora Thomé conducts post-doctoral research at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo and teaches at the Columbia Women’s Leadership Network. João Nemi Neto is senior lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.João Nemi Neto is senior lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.Luciana Namorato is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. Débora Thomé conducts post-doctoral research at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo and teaches at the Columbia Women’s Leadership Network. João Nemi Neto is senior lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.João Nemi Neto is senior lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.
