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Chicana art : the politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities /

In Alma Lopez's digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons-the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards-embrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pérez, Laura Elisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Colección:Objects/histories.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Alma Lopez's digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons-the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards-embrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures. Ester Hernandez's 1976 etching Libertad/Liberty depicts a female artist chiseling away at the Statue of Liberty, freeing from within it a regal Mayan woman and, in the process, creating a culturally composite Lady Liberty descended from indigenous and mixed bloodlines. In her painting <I.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 390 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-379) and index.
ISBN:9780822389880
0822389886