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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Ana Mendieta"”.
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Ana Mendieta- a search for identity
Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American female artist, whose work was a continuing search for identity throughout her life. She often searched for her roots in the earth itself, using it directly in her art and with her own body. This "return to the earth" was a metaphor for her life on many levels. …
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Beyond the Threshold: Allusions to the Òrìsà in Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series
The Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) created the Silueta Series during the 1970s and ‘80s. It consists of earth-body works in situ featuring the silhouette of the artist's body fashioned from mud, plants, rocks, gunpowder and other materials. Underlying the creation of the Silueta Series …
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Performing exile: Cuban-American women’s performance art, 1972-2014
This dissertation examines Ana Mendieta, Carmelita Tropicana, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Coco Fusco together, arguing that their work embodies diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba in the late twentieth century, such as the 1960 embargo and 2001 Third Border Initiative. Case …
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Being “Other”: Ana Mendieta’s Artistic Practice and Feminist Politics within Arts Institutions
… the art and politics of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta through her engagement with three arts institutions: 1) the University of Iowa; 2) Heresies: A Journal of Feminist Art and Politics; and 3) Artist in Residence Gallery (A.I.R.). I explore these three institutions specifically to …
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The screen as a site of division and encounter
… others, an earth body performative project by Ana Mendieta (Cuba/USA) entitled Silueta series (1973-1980), a live art work by Tanja Ostojic (Serbia/Germany) called Looking for a husband with EU passport (2000-2005) and my own performative media pieces, Valid until… (2010) and The place where we …
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Towards a Performative Migratory Aesthetics in Work by Womxn-Identifying Practitioners in the United States, 1970–2018
… approach, including art historical formal analysis, performance studies concepts of embodiment, and decolonial theoretical analyses of socio-cultural landscapes, I theorize, in part through the work of Mieke Bal, what I term a “performative migratory aesthetics.” In such a theorization, I …
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Bodycloth in Performance Art
… collapse. This artistic research thesis analyses a variety of inter-relations between body and cloth, as well as various modes of adornment and utilisations in order to understand the performance, experience, and presence of bodycloth in performance art. Drawing upon a wide range of …
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The Bible and its modern methods: interpretation between art and text
… in nuanced aesthetic terms. The comparative analysis derives its two-subject structure for each section from the undergraduate art history seminar, in which two slides are projected and the group encouraged to identify similarities between disparate works. My use of this heuristic method then …