Crafting Gender - Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

Informationen zum Autor Eli Bartra is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Culture at the Universidad AutÓnoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco in Mexico City. She is the author of numerous books in Spanish. Klappentext This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap in scholarship. From a feminist perspective, the contributors examine not only twentieth-century and contemporary art by women, but also its production, distribution, and consumption. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts, they look at a range of artistic forms across Latin America, including Panamanian molas (blouses), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, and Mayan hipiles (dresses).Art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States discuss artwork from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Suriname, and Puerto Rico, and many of their essays focus on indigenous artists. They highlight the complex webs of social relations from which folk art emerges. For instance, while several pieces describe the similar creative and technical processes of indigenous pottery-making communities of the Amazon and of mestiza potters in Mexico and Colombia, they also reveal the widely varying functions of the ceramics and meanings of the iconography. Integrating the social, historical, political, geographical, and economic factors that shape folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean, Crafting Gender sheds much-needed light on a rich body of art and the women who create it.Contributors Eli BartraRonald J. DuncanDolores JulianoBetty LaDukeLourdes RejÓn PatrÓnSally PriceMarÍa de JesÚs RodrÍguez-ShadowMari Lyn SalvadorNorma ValleDorothea Scott Whitten Zusammenfassung Initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing Latin American and Caribbean folk art. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts! this title looks at a range of artistic forms from across Latin America! including Colombian molas (textiles)! Andean weavings! Mexican ceramics! Mayan hipiles (dresses). Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Eli Bartra 1 Always Something New: Changing Fashions in a "Traditional Culture" (Suriname) / Sally Price 17 The Emergence of the Santeras: Renewed Strength for Traditional Puerto Rican Art (Puerto Rico) / Norma Valle 35 Kuna Women's Art: Molas, Meaning, and Markets (Panama) / Mari Lyn Salvador 47 Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua women (Ecuador) / Dorothea Scott Whitten 73 Engendering Clay: Las Ceramistas of Mata Ortiz (Mexico) / Eli Bartra 98 Women's Folk Art in La Chamba, Colombia (Colombia) / Ronald J. Duncan 126 The Mapuche Craftswomen (Argentina) / Dolores Juliano 155 Women's Prayers: The Aesthetics and Meaning of Female Votive Paintings in Chalma (Mexico) / MarÍa J. RodrÍguez-Shadow 169 Earth Magic: The Legacy of Teodora Blanco (Mexico) / Betty LaDuke 197 Tastes, Colors, and Techniques in Embroidered Mayan Female Costumes (Mexico) / Lourdes RejÓn PatrÓn 220 Contributors 237 Index 241...

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• Autori: Eli Bartra
• Con la collaborazione di: Eli Bartra (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.10.2003
• EAN: 9780822331704
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3170-4
• Pagine: 256
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Altro; Art & Art Instruction, ART / Folk & Outsider Art