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Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Jane Blocker
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Description for Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Paperback. Presents an analysis of the career of Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-American feminist artist who came to prominence in the late 70s and early 80s, in terms of gender and performance theory. This work is useful for those involved with the production, criticism, theory, and history of contemporary art. Num Pages: 184 pages, 29 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta's diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history of performance art, installation, and earth works, as well as feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. Taken from banners carried in a 1992 protest outside the Guggenheim Museum ... Read more
Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta's diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history of performance art, installation, and earth works, as well as feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. Taken from banners carried in a 1992 protest outside the Guggenheim Museum ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822323242
SKU
V9780822323242
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99-22
About Jane Blocker
Jane Blocker is Assistant Professor of Art History at Georgia State University.
Reviews for Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
This is a very important study of one of the most ambitious and intriguing artists of our time. Blocker's work brings together performance theory, historiography, art history, and biography in order to illuminate some of the beckoning caves and shadows of Mendieta's art and life. -Peggy Phelan, author of Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories This book offers a more ... Read more