Ana Mendieta: Traces - Softcover

Bryan-Wilson, Julia; Heathfield, Adrian; Rosenthal, Stephanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853323179 ISBN 13: 9781853323171

Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Title: Ana Mendieta( Traces) Binding: Paperback Author: StephanieRosenthal Publisher: HaywardPublishing

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Review:

Traces is an exceptional exhibition catalogue that offers new scholarship on Ana Mendieta (1948-85), an artist who pursued a range of media in the production of her "earth-body-art," which addressed the placement of a female form in a landscape. The three essays move beyond the ingrained horror of her death, and focus instead on the context of Mendieta's work. This focus includes her sense of displacement and identification as a double minority in the North American art world of the 1970s-80s; and the themes of her works, e.g., transience, absence, violence, and belonging. Curator Rosenthal addresses Mendieta's evocation of the liminal spaces between art and documentation; the inseparability of her body, her life, and her cultural heritage; and her blurring of artistic boundaries among body art, land art, and performance. Heathfield examines Mendieta's atemporality and the migration of her work across disciplines. Bryan-Wilson critiques the artist's classification as a feminist. Full-color images are featured throughout. A visual and textual anthology of archival and source material is supplemented by a brief bibliography, notes fro each essay, and a exhibition checklist--all of which point readers to further information. Exceptionally rich, this catalogue is a necessary purchase do all academic libraries. (J. Decker Choice)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1853323179
• ISBN 13: 9781853323171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240