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Where Is Ana Mendieta? : Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822323044
ISBN-139780822323044
eBay Product ID (ePID)1119426
Product Key Features
Number of Pages277 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWhere Is Ana Mendieta? : Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Publication Year1999
SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Individual Artists / General, Techniques / Painting, Performance
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Social Science
AuthorJane Blocker
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight17.1 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN98-030341
Reviews"This book offers a more rigorous historical and cultural analysis than earlier texts on Ana Mendieta. It adds usefully to one's understanding of Mendieta's work and will contribute to her insertion into history."-- Mira Schor , author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, “This book offers a more rigorous historical and cultural analysis than earlier texts on Ana Mendieta. It adds usefully to one’s understanding of Mendieta’s work and will contribute to her insertion into history.�- Mira Schor , author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, "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 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 rigorous historical and cultural analysis than earlier texts on Ana Mendieta. It adds usefully to one's understanding of Mendieta's work and will contribute to her insertion into history."- Mira Schor , author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, "Blocker argues that Mendieta's interaction with the earth engaged other aspects of her identity, specifically her nationality and ethnicity. In retrospect it looks as if Mendieta risked much by remaining so true to her commitment to an art that 'eliminates the object, subverts the artist's authority . . .' It has needed someone like Blocker to retrieve the complexity of such a body of work from clumsy simplification." -MAKE, June - August 1999 "This is a very important study of one of the most ambitious and intriguing artists of our time. Blocker's work opens up the relationship between theories of historiography and performance, thus helping to bring art history into an interdisciplinary conversation". ([PERMISSION PENDING] Peggy Phelan), "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
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal709/.2
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Where Is Ana Mendieta? 1. Fire 2. Earth 3. Exile 4. Travel 5. Body Conclusion: Writing toward Disappearance Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisAna 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 in New York, the title phrase "Where is Ana Mendieta?" evokes not only the suspicious and tragic circumstances surrounding her death but also the conspicuous absence of women artists from high-profile exhibitions. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Judith Butler, Joseph Roach, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha, Blocker discusses the power of Mendieta's earth-and-body art to alter, unsettle, and broaden the terms of identity itself. She shows how Mendieta used exile as a discursive position from which to disrupt dominant categories, analyzing as well Mendieta's use of mythology and anthropology, the ephemeral nature of her media, and the debates over her ethnic, gender, and national identities. As the first major critical examination of this enigmatic artist's work, Where Is Ana Mendieta? will interest a broad audience, particularly those involved with the production, criticism, theory, and history of contemporary art., 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
LC Classification NumberNX512.M46B63 1999
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