Chicana art : the politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Pérez, Laura Elisa
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Collection:Objects/histories.
Sujets:
1900-1999
Mexican American women artists.
Mexican American arts > Themes, motives.
Feminism and the arts > United States > History > 20th century.
Femmes artistes américaines d'origine mexicaine.
Arts américains (mexicains) > Thèmes, motifs.
Féminisme et arts > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
ART > American > Hispanic American.
Feminism and the arts
Mexican American women artists
Kunst
Chicana
Chicanokonst > teman och motiv.
Feminism och konst > historia > Förenta staterna > 1900-talet.
United States
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xv, 390 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-379) and index.
ISBN:9780822389880
0822389886

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