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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806232203321

Autore

Bartra Eli

Titolo

Women in Mexican folk art : of promises, betrayals, monsters and celebrities / / Eli Bartra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-78316-074-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Iberian and Latin American Studies

Disciplina

745.44

Soggetti

Folk art - Mexico

Women artists - Mexico

Women in art

Women folk artists - Mexico

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

Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Folk Art and some of its Myths; Women and Votive Paintings; Judas was not a Woman, but...; Fantastic Art: Alebrijes and Ocumichos; Frida Kahlo on a Visit to Ocotlán:'The Painting's One Thing, the Clay's Another'; The Paintings on the Serapes of Teotitlán; From Humble Rag Dolls to Zapatistas; Embroiderers of Miracles; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender. The author will demonstrate that the topic provides unique insights into Mexican culture, and has enormous relevance within and without the country, given the fact that much folk art is made for the United States and Europe, either in terms of the tourists who buy it on coming to Mexico, or that which is exported.