| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 390 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Objects/histories |
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Objects/histories.
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| Contents |
Invocation, ofrenda -- Spirit, glyphs -- Body, dress -- Altar, alter -- Tierra, land -- Book, art -- Face, heart -- Self, other |
| Summary |
In Alma Lopez's digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons-the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards-embrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures. Ester Hernandez's 1976 etching Libertad/Liberty depicts a female artist chiseling away at the Statue of Liberty, freeing from within it a regal Mayan woman and, in the process, creating a culturally composite Lady Liberty descended from indigenous and mixed bloodlines. In her painting <I |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-379) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Mexican American women artists.
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Mexican American arts -- Themes, motives
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Feminism and the arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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ART -- American -- Hispanic American.
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Feminism and the arts.
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Mexican American women artists.
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Kunst
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Chicana
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Chicanokonst -- teman och motiv.
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Feminism och konst -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1900-talet.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006034540 |
| ISBN |
9780822389880 |
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0822389886 |
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