Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985

Abstract

"This stunning reappraisal offers long overdue recognition to the enormous contribution to the field of contemporary art of women artists in Latin America and those of Latino and Chicano heritage working during a pivotal time in history. Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th century in Latin America and the US, women artists were staking their claim in nearly every field. This wide ranging volume examines the work of more than 100 female artists with nearly 300 works in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance art, and other experimental media. A series of thematic essays, arranged by country, address the cultural and political contexts in which these radical artists worked, while other essays address key issues such as feminism, art history, and the political body. Drawing its design and feel from the radical underground pamphlets, catalogs, and posters of the era, this is the first examination of a highly influential period in 20th-century art history"-- Foreword / Ann Philbin -- Introduction / Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta -- The invisibility of Latin American women artists: problematizing art historical and curatorial practices / Cecilia Fajardo-Hill -- The iconographic turn: the denormalization of bodies and sensibilities in the work of Latin American women artists / Andrea Giunta -- Feminist art and "artivism" in Latin America: a dialogue in three voices / Julia Antivilo Peña, Mónica Mayer, and María Laura Rosa -- Fallen monuments: the feminist continuum / Connie Butler -- Exhibition themes -- Plates -- Argentina : In praise of indiscipline / Rodrigo Alonso -- Brazil : To construct new houses and deconstruct old metaphors of foundation / Maria Angélica Melendi -- Caribbean : "Yo misma fui mi ruta": a decolonial feminist analysis of art from the Hispanic Caribbean / Marcela Guerrero -- Central America : One hundred times one / Rosina Cazali -- Chile : Poetics of resistance / Andrea Giunta -- Colombia : In the first person: poetics of subjectivity in the work of Colombian women artists, 1960-1980 / Carmen María Jaramillo -- Mexico : Corporeal apparition, beyond appearances: women and bodily discourse in Mexican art, 1960-1985 / Karen Cordero Reiman -- Paraguay : A country of women? / Andrea Giunta -- Peru : Making sense of violence: women artists in Peru, 1960s-1980s / Miguel A. López -- United States : "No son todas las que están ni están todas las que son" / Carla Stellweg -- Uruguay : Traces in the shape of history / Andrea Giunta -- Venezuela : Singular women: experimental art in Venezuela / Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Artists' biographies (pages 313-355): Mara Alvares -- Celia Álvarez Muñoz -- Yolanda Andrade -- Claudia Andujar -- Martha Araújo -- Margarita Azurdia -- Judith F. Baca -- Alicia Barney -- Gracia Barrios -- María Luisa Bemberg -- Delfina Bernal -- Olga Blinder -- Sybil Brintrup -- Roser Bru -- Teresa Burga -- Feliza Bursztyn -- Maris Bustamante -- Victoria Cabezas -- Gloria Camiruaga -- Delia Cancela -- María Teresa Cano -- Graciela Carnevale -- Barbara Carrasco -- Josely Carvalho -- Isabel Castro -- Vera Chaves Barcellos -- Lygia Clark -- Analívia Cordeiro -- Ximena Cuevas -- Alicia d'Amico -- Liliane Dardot -- Lenora de Barros - Iole de Freitas -- Luz Donoso -- Diana Dowek -- Antonia Eiriz -- Sandra Eleta -- Diamela Eltit -- Paz Errázuriz -- Virginia Errázuriz -- Sara Facio -- Anna Bella Geiger -- Gloria Gómez-Sánchez -- Beatriz González -- Mercedes Elena González -- Lourdes Grobet -- Carmela Gross -- Silvia Gruner -- Sonia Gutiérrez -- Graciela Gutiérrez Marx -- Johanna Hamann -- Narcisa Hirsch -- Kati Horna -- Graciela Iturbide -- Ana Victoria Jiménez -- Ana Kamien -- Karen Lamassonne -- Magali Lara -- Sandra Llano-Mejía -- Yolanda López -- Lea Lublin -- Clemencia Lucena -- Anna Maria Maiolino -- Márcia X. -- Liliana Maresca -- Poli Marichal -- Marilú Marini -- Marisol -- María Evelia Marmolejo -- María Martínez-Cañas -- Mónica Mayer -- Frieda Medín -- Ana Mendieta -- Magali Meneses -- Sarah Minter -- Marta Minujín -- Sara Modiano -- Margarita Morselli -- Ana Vitória Mussi -- Rosa Navarro -- Marie Orensanz -- Margarita Paksa -- Sylvia Palacios Whitman -- Marta Palau -- Lygia Pape -- Letícia Parente -- Catalina Parra -- Marta María Pérez -- Wanda Pimentel -- Polvo de Gallina Negra -- Liliana Porter -- Dalila Puzzovio -- Patricia Restrepo -- Carla Rippey -- Sophie Rivera -- Jesusa Rodríguez -- Margot Römer -- Nelbia Romero -- Lotty Rosenfeld -- Neide Sá -- Sylvia Salazar Simpson -- Zilia Sánchez -- Victoria Santa Cruz -- Marcia Schvartz -- Regina Silveira -- Teresinha Soares -- Antonieta Sosa -- Tecla Tofano -- Amelia Toledo -- Janet Toro -- Celeida Tostes -- Teresa Trujillo -- Patssi Valdez -- Eugenia Vargas Pereira -- Regina Vater -- Cecilia Vicuña -- Ani Villanueva -- Pola Weiss -- Yeni y Nan -- Nirma Zárate.