Ana Mendieta: Earth Body : Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985This major monograph, a comprehensive reconsideration of the brief life and career of Ana Mendieta, contextualizes the artist's work within its time and acknowledges her legacy on subsequent generations of artists. The Cuban-born American sculptor is celebrated for her earth-body works of the 1970s, sculptural interventions in the landscape that placed her body--or its haunting silhouette--in symbiotic relationship with nature. Using extracts from her films, original slide documentation, photography, and other archival material, this catalogue illustrates early performances from Mendieta's student days, as well as her more well-known Silueta Series made in Iowa and Mexico from 1973 to 1980. Earth-body works executed in Canada, Cuba and the United States in the early 1980s, and select sculptures, drawings and installations dating to the mid-80s will also be illustrated. This publication promises to be the definitive study of the artist's work. |
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... Old Man's Creek , Sharon Center , lowa , 1977 35 mm color slide The mud embankment and wooded area surrounding Old Man's Creek , located roughly six miles from lowa City , served as the site of many of Mendieta's Siluetas and earth ...
... Old Man's Creek , Sharon Center , lowa , 1977 35 mm color slide The mud embankment and wooded area surrounding Old Man's Creek , located roughly six miles from lowa City , served as the site of many of Mendieta's Siluetas and earth ...
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... Old Man's Creek , the Iowa River , and an area she and Breder called the " Dead Tree Area " ( a wildlife preserve near Amana , Iowa ) that closely resembled mummy forms . In these works the artist wrapped herself in black or white cloth ...
... Old Man's Creek , the Iowa River , and an area she and Breder called the " Dead Tree Area " ( a wildlife preserve near Amana , Iowa ) that closely resembled mummy forms . In these works the artist wrapped herself in black or white cloth ...
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... Old Man's Creek on Super - 8 film , in which the barely perceptible outline of the artist beneath the mud starts to quiver with her breathing , as if she were in an antediluvian life - force . Here , moving in the mud , her presence has ...
... Old Man's Creek on Super - 8 film , in which the barely perceptible outline of the artist beneath the mud starts to quiver with her breathing , as if she were in an antediluvian life - force . Here , moving in the mud , her presence has ...
Contents
Foreword NED RIFKIN | 11 |
The Memory of History OLGA M VISO | 35 |
Ana Mendietas lowa Years 19701980 JULIA P HERZBERG | 137 |
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1981 Lifetime black-and-white 35 mm color A.I.R. Gallery Abakuá Afro-Cuban American Art Ana Mendieta Collection Ana Mendieta Papers archive Art Museum Breder Carl Andre Carlos Carolee Schneemann Center chicken CNPA Collection Raquelín Mendieta Contemporary Art courtesy Galerie Lelong Cuba culture Design on leaf documented earth earth-body Esculturas Rupestres Estate of Ana exhibition February figures Gerardo Mosquera goddess gunpowder Havana Herzberg Ignacio images Intermedia Program interview January Jaruco landscape Latin American Lifetime black-and-white photograph Lifetime color photograph lowa Lucy Lippard María Marina Abramović Mary Beth Edelson Mendieta created Mendieta Family Trust Mendieta's art Mexican Mexico Miami Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Oaxaca Old Man's Creek painting performance piece Raquelín Mendieta Family ritual Robert Smithson Santería September silent film silhouette studio summer Super-8 Super-8 color Taíno Trasobares Traveled tree University of Iowa Untitled Blood Untitled Silueta Series Varadero Vito Acconci women artists Yagul York Untitled