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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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Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art
Tracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts
and images of the twentieth century
This volume looks at Cuban literature and art that challenge
traditional assumptions about the body. Examining how writers and
artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences
throughout the past century, Christina García identifies historical
continuities in the way they have emphasized the shared materiality
of bodies. García shows how these works interact with ecologies of
the human and nonhuman across diverse media, time periods, and
ideologies.
García examines corporeality in a variety of works, including
the poetry of Nicolás Guillén and experimental writings of Severo
Sarduy; transspecies drawings, paintings, and sculptures by Roberto
Fabelo; Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's popular queer film Fresa y
chocolate ; and contemporary narrative fictions by Ena Lucía
Portela, Antonio José Ponte, and Ahmel Echevarría. Using the lenses
of new materialism, critical race studies, critical animal studies,
queer studies, and poststructuralism, García engages with Cuban
cultural production at the intersection of diverse social
issues.
In this book, García explores how certain artistic practices
focus on portraying ecological relationships instead of
recognizable subjects or shared identity. Corporeal Readings of
Cuban Literature and Art demonstrates that through their
attention to the connections that different kinds of bodies share,
Cuban creators have long undermined rules of classification and
unification, reimagining community as shared vulnerability and
difference.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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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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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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Unpicking the Blanket - Escaping The Bed We Were Made To Lie In
Reflects on the development and themes of her final exhibition for her MFA, in which she used blankets to represent body parts and to comment on her own and other women’s experiences of relationships and womanhood. Notes that her research for the exhibition explored the ‘cultural constructs of patriarchal societies and feminist action, which continue to shape women’s lives today’. Overviews the process of installing the exhibition with the help of friends and comments on the ‘unexpected relationships’ that arose between her art pieces. Explains why she used blankets as the primary material for her works and touches on the significance of the colour palette she used. Describes and comments on each of the pieces in the exhibition installation. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Double-Bind: Anita DeSoto and the Pleasures of Painting
Overviews the 20-year career of the New Zealand figurative painter who has taught Drawing and Painting at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, since 2004. Focuses on four key influences on her work including theatrical tableaux performed at entertainments organised by the Countrywomen’s Institute; her young adulthood within the Pentecostal community; her Master of Fine Arts research into the sensuality of women’s religious writings spanning the periods of the late Medieval to the Counter-Reformation; and her experience as a resident artist at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts, Germany. Observes that the combination of these four influences ‘coalesce in an oeuvre centred on the roles allocated to women in the histories of the depiction of their bodies’. Describes the themes in her paintings and discusses changes to her painting style, particularly after her residency at Leipzig. Provides information about her exhibitions in New Zealand and overseas. Comments on the evolution of her work in recent years. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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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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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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