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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463283003321

Titolo

Ofrenda : Liliana Wilson's art of dissidence and dreams / / Norma E. Cantu, editor ; foreword by Ricardo Romo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station : , : Texas A&M University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-62349-222-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Joe and Betty Moore Texas art series ; ; number seventeen

Altri autori (Persone)

CantúNorma E. <1947->

Disciplina

759.983

Soggetti

Women artists - Texas - Austin

Chilean American women - Texas - Austin

Painting, American - Texas - 20th century

Painting, American - Texas - 21st century

Art - Political aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Chile History Coup d'état, 1973 Art and the coup d'état

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Finding nepantla: Liliana Wilson, artivist / Norma E. Cantu -- Ofrenda / Antonia Castaneda and Liliana Wilson -- Bearing witness: their eyes anticipate the healing / Gloria E. Anzaldua -- Las imagenes de Liliana Wilson / Marjorie Agosin, translated by Monica Bruno Galmozzi -- Liliana Wilson: learning to live finally / Kay Turner -- "Ella tiene su tono": conocimiento and mestiza consciousness in Liliana Wilson's art / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- Exiled creativity and immigrant aesthetics: the politically transformative work of  Liliana Wilson / Guisela Latorre -- The inviolate erotic in the paintings of Liliana Wilson / Laura E. Perez -- A Chilean painter in the city of ideas: Liliana Wilson, memory recorder and dream shaper / George Vargas -- Liliana Wilson: shards of the past in her oeuvre / Patricia Ruiz-Healy -- Tango al que sopla la hoja / Lourdes Perez -- The artwork.

Sommario/riassunto

Liliana Wilson's art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice. Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the political turmoil and



repression in Chile in the 1970's and 1980's and who have become self-exiled artists working outside of Chile but who are still tied to the political period and to its issues and concerns. From a working class family that struggled financially, Wilson nonetheless was able to study law, which facilitated her successful immigration to the United States in 1977. She moved to Texas and in...