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

• Pubblicazione: College Station : , : Texas A&M University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 759.983
• Soggetto topico: Women artists - Texas - Austin; Chilean American women - Texas - Austin; Painting, American - Texas - 20th century; Painting, American - Texas - 21st century; Art - Political aspects - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Chile History Coup d'état, 1973 Art and the coup d'état
• Altri autori: CantúNorma E. <1947->
• Persona (resp. second.): WilsonLiliana <1953->; CantúNorma E. <1947->
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Ofrenda
• ISBN: 1-62349-222-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818866503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Joe and Betty Moore Texas art series ; ; no. 17.