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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AAEClbks | 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 Art Museum Breder Carl Andre Carolee Schneemann Center chicken CNPA Collection Raquelín Mendieta color photograph 20 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 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 Rupestrian Sculptures 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