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Framing Majismo
Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish, majismo conferred on Spanish “citizens” the pictorial ideal of a shared national character.
In Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi explores nobles’ fascination with and appropriation of the practices and types associated with majismo, as well as how this connection cultivated the formation of an elite Spanish identity in the late 1700s and aided the Bourbons’ objective to fashion themselves as the legitimate rulers of Spain. In particular, the book considers artistic and literary representations of the majo and the maja , purportedly native types who embodied and performed uniquely Spanish characteristics. Such visual examples of majismo emerge as critical and contentious sites for navigating eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, national character, and noble identity. Zanardi also examines how these bodies were contrasted with those regarded as “foreign,” finding that “foreign” and “national” bodies were frequently described and depicted in similar ways. She isolates and uncovers the nuances of bodily representation, ultimately showing how the body and the emergent nation were mutually constructed at a critical historical moment for both.
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The Golden Key
The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key recovers the history of a groundbreaking yet forgotten generation and demonstrates that women were integral to the development of modern Chinese art.
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Sexing the Border
This innovative book represents a timely intervention in both critical discourses on video and new media art, as well as examination of gender in post-Socialist contexts. The chapters explore how encounters between art and technology have been implicated in the representation and analysis of gender, critically reflecting current debates and politics across the region and Europe. The book offers a diversity of analytical contexts, addressing interwoven histories across post-Socialist Europe,.
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Framing Majismo
Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the
popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth
century, served as a vehicle to \"regain\" Spanish heritage. As
expressed in visual representations of popular types participating
in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically
Spanish, majismo conferred on Spanish \"citizens\" the pictorial
ideal of a shared national character.
In Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi explores nobles'
fascination with and appropriation of the practices and types
associated with majismo, as well as how this connection cultivated
the formation of an elite Spanish identity in the late 1700s and
aided the Bourbons' objective to fashion themselves as the
legitimate rulers of Spain. In particular, the book considers
artistic and literary representations of the majo and the
maja , purportedly native types who embodied and performed
uniquely Spanish characteristics. Such visual examples of majismo
emerge as critical and contentious sites for navigating
eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, national character, and
noble identity. Zanardi also examines how these bodies were
contrasted with those regarded as \"foreign,\" finding that \"foreign\"
and \"national\" bodies were frequently described and depicted in
similar ways. She isolates and uncovers the nuances of bodily
representation, ultimately showing how the body and the emergent
nation were mutually constructed at a critical historical moment
for both.
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Director/mother/outlaw
This article examines the practices of Australian women theatre directors as an act of resistance that de-centres conventional and historical thinking. It investigates the innovations that emerge from the powerful intersection of the creative work of directing and the creative work of mothering. As identified by Throsby and Petetskaya (2017) in Making Art Work: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia, a large percentage of theatre directors in Australia function within what is a freelance or 'gig' economy. At its core, the theatre industry is a low-income-earning sector that is old-fashioned in its hierarchical and male-dominated structures. This context takes a toll on the number of women who aspire to careers as directors. However, like many sectors, the balance of family life and work affects opportunities for women directors as well. While there is growing scholarship and policy on gender equality in the theatre ecology, little research has been done on directors who are concurrently doing the work of creating theatre and mothering. This article reports on research arising from my doctoral studies. It examines the significant impacts of childbearing and rearing on the way women direct and the creative work that they produce, through two case studies,2 and it further discusses key findings for creating environments that enable women directors to flourish and that facilitate new mothers' return to rehearsal rooms across the different facets of the theatre industry.
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Argentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan Photography
One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America, photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis. This pioneering book offers one of the first in-depth investigations of the complex and extensive history of gendered perspectives in Latin American photography through studies of works from Argentina, Mexico, and Guatemala.David William Foster examines the work of photographers ranging from the internationally acclaimed artists Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer, and Marcos López to significant photographers whose work is largely unknown to English-speaking audiences. He grounds his essays in four interlocking areas of research: the experience of human life in urban environments, the feminist matrix and gendered cultural production, Jewish cultural production, and the ideological principles of cultural works and the connections between the works and the sociopolitical and historical contexts in which they were created. Foster reveals how gender-marked photography has contributed to the discourse surrounding the project of redemocratization in Argentina and Guatemala, as well as how it has illuminated human rights abuses in both countries. He also traces photography's contributions to the evolution away from the masculinist-dominated post–1910 Revolution ideology in Mexico. This research convincingly demonstrates that Latin American photography merits the high level of respect that is routinely accorded to more canonical forms of cultural production.
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Revolting Self-Care: Mark Aguhar's Virtual Separatism
Given her artist statement's description of her work as \"a continuous exploration of queer expression and what it means to have grown up gay on the internet,\" it comes as little surprise that her highly sexual watercolor and textile-patterned pieces, her rope sculptures, and her text-based works such as her famous \"Litanies to My Heavenly Brown Body\" and, of course, \"The Axes\" still circulate widely in queer and trans corners of both the art world and the internet, easing the breathing of many like her who might slowly be suffocated otherwise.3 In this essay, I seek to understand what it was about Aguhar that made her (indeed, to this day, makes her) such a source of minoritarian sustenance. In Disidentifications—\"one of the earliest texts to popularize the use of 'minoritarian' for contemporary readers in queer theory, performance studies, and critical race theory,\" according to Joshua Chambers-Letson4—Muñoz writes, \"Although I use terms such as 'minoritarian subjects' or the less jargony 'people of color/queers of color' to describe the different cultural workers who appear in these pages, I do want to state that all of these formations of identity are 'identities-in-difference. \"11 This renovation of the chain of care paradigm stretches the concept so that it can account for subjects like Aguhar and their diasporic performances of kabaklaan, a term that, according to Robert Diaz, indexes both a range of queer and trans Filipino subjectivities and a mode of performance characterized by \"being over the top\" and \"being aware of one's being over the top,\" a mode of performance with the potential to \"transform spaces often seen as unimportant and frivolous\"—say, Tumblr—\"into sites of solidarity, creativity, and care. According to Loewe, self-care stands as an importation of middle-class values of leisure that's blind to the dynamics of working class (or even family) life, inherently rejects collective responsibility for each other's well-being, misses power dynamics in our lives, and attempts to serve as a replacement for
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Resistant bodies in the cultural productions of transnational Hispanic Caribbean women
Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity examines the art created by several Caribbean women who use literature, film, graphic novels, music, testimonios, photographs, etc. to convey social justice, democracy, and new ways of re/imaging marginal identities. In using Chela Sandoval's theories on methodologies of the oppressed, Irune del Rio Gabiola argues how the tactics Sandoval offers can be productively applied to the cultural productions analyzed. The author explores how the protagonists of all the cultural productions this book focuses on developing tactics to create new possibilities and alternatives for self-fashioning. Particularly, del Rio Gabiola reconsiders concepts such as shame, failure, unbecoming, hermeneutics of love or flexible bodies as methodologies of the oppressed that propose decolonizing emancipatory techniques in a transnational arena.Using Chela Sandoval's theories of methodologies of the oppressed, this book examines the art created by several Caribbean women who use literature, film, graphic novels, music, testimonios, photographs, and other forms of art to convey social justice, democracy, and new ways of re/imaging marginal identities.
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