Ana Mendiata : traces / edited by Stephanie Rosenthal ; with essays by Stephanie Rosenthal, Adrian Heathfield, Julia Bryan-Wilson.
By: Rosenthal, Stephanie
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Contributor(s): Bryan-Wilson, Julia | Heathfield, Adrian.
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BookPublisher: London: Hayward Gallery, 2013Description: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781853323171.Other title: Traces.Subject(s): Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985 | Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985 -- Criticism and interpretation | Human figure in artDDC classification: 709.2 MEN Summary: During her short career, Ana Mendieta (1948 1985) created a body of work that was provocative and radically inventive. Using her own body, together with elemental materials blood, fire, earth and water she created visceral performances and ritual ephemeral earth-body sculptures exploring life, death, rebirth and spiritual transformation. Born in Cuba but sent to America as a child, much of her art expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement and exile. Her images are compelling, mysterious and poetic. In some, the outline of her body is consumed by gunpowder, fireworks, or advancing waves; others record ancient goddess-forms moulded from sand, carved into rock, or incised in clay. This book includes an anthology of never seen before material including Mendieta s own writings and press coverage of her shows. Encompassing a wealth of her drawings, photography and filmography, it also provides a comprehensive and enlightening perspective on this important artist s work.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.2 MEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 02/02/2024 | 00196229 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
During her short career, Ana Mendieta (1948-85) created a body of work that was provocative and radically inventive. Using her own body, together with elemental materials--blood, fire, earth and water--she created visceral tableaux and ephemeral "earth-body" sculptures exploring life, death, rebirth and spiritual transformation. Much of her art also expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement and exile (Mendieta was born in Cuba, but sent to the US as a child). In her work, the outline of her body is consumed by gunpowder, fireworks, or advancing waves; and ancient goddess-forms are shaped from sand, carved into rock or incised into clay or onto leaves. The media are exceptionally diverse, but the images are consistently compelling, mysterious and poetic.
Encompassing a wealth of drawings, photography and film, Ana Mendieta: Traces provides a comprehensive and illuminating overview of this highly influential artist's work. Essays by art historians Julia Bryan-Wilson and Adrian Heathfield, as well as Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator at Hayward Gallery, provide an array of new approaches to Mendieta's practice. This publication also includes a wide-ranging and richly illustrated anthology of never-before-seen material, including Mendieta's own notebooks, exhibition plans and correspondence, the result of unparalleled access to the Ana Mendieta Archive. Filled with new imagery, ephemera and scholarship, Ana Mendieta: Traces provides a comprehensive introduction to this major twentieth-century artist, as essential for Mendieta experts as for those coming to her work for the first time.
This title accompanies the first monograph exhibition of this artist in the UK at Hayward Gallery, 24 September 15 December 2013.
During her short career, Ana Mendieta (1948 1985) created a body of work that was provocative and radically inventive. Using her own body, together with elemental materials blood, fire, earth and water she created visceral performances and ritual ephemeral earth-body sculptures exploring life, death, rebirth and spiritual transformation. Born in Cuba but sent to America as a child, much of her art expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement and exile. Her images are compelling, mysterious and poetic. In some, the outline of her body is consumed by gunpowder, fireworks, or advancing waves; others record ancient goddess-forms moulded from sand, carved into rock, or incised in clay. This book includes an anthology of never seen before material including Mendieta s own writings and press coverage of her shows. Encompassing a wealth of her drawings, photography and filmography, it also provides a comprehensive and enlightening perspective on this important artist s work.