Other Fridas - The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists

This book explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different Latin American countries, and seeks to understand their contributions and their complex lives, celebrating their creativity and impact on Latin American art.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Other Fridas Luciana Namorato and Débora Thomé
Section 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 Morell
Chapter 5: 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
Chapter 6: Guadalupe Marín and the texto desmadrado Alysa Schroff
Chapter 7: Yolanda Bedregal: On Women's Writing Maria Elva Echenique
Chapter 8: Astrid H. Roemer: Postcolonial Writing in the Black Diaspora Ben De Witte
Chapter 9: Freedom Lost, Freedom Found in the Poetry of Delmira Agustini and Juana de Ibarbourou Anastasiya Stoyneva
Section III: Art as Form
Chapter 10: Embroidering Folk Culture: Violeta Parra's Art Lorna Dillon
Chapter 11: Metal Bodies: Discourses on the Body in the Work in Metal of Contemporary Peruvian Women Artists Gabriela Germaná
Chapter 12: 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
Chapter 13: Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Women in Cinema: Sônia Braga and Sara Gómez Sandra Sousa
Chapter 14: Maria Velluti's Mise-en-Scène: Translating a Woman Dramatist in Nineteenth-century Brazil Luciana Carvalho Fonseca and Dennys Silva-Reis
Chapter 15: Cannibalism, Lygia Clark's Body, and her Anthropophagic Slobber João Nemi Neto
Section V: Art as Sound
Chapter 16: A Musical Constellation: Sorority and Authorship in the Work of Dona Ivone Lara Mila Burns
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Luciana Namorato; Debora Thome and João Nemi Neto - Contributions by Luciana Namorato; João Nemi Neto; Debora Thome; Yamila Azize-Vargas; Mila Burns; Ben De Witte; Lorna Dillon; Maria Elva Echenique; Luciana Carvalho Fonseca; Gabriela Germaná; A

Product details

• Authors: Luciana Thome Namorato
• Assisted by: Debora Thome (Editor), João Nemi Neto (Editor), Luciana Namorato (Editor), Luciana Namorato (Editor), João Nemi Neto (Editor), Debora Thome (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2025
• EAN: 9781666963045
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-304-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Latin America, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, ART / Women Artists, History of art / art & design styles, Caribbean islands, History of Art, Gender studies: women, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls