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

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.

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