TY - BOOK ID - 571294 TI - Ana Mendieta : earth body : sculpture and performance, 1972-1985 AU - Viso, Olga M. AU - Brett, Guy. AU - Herzberg, Julia P. AU - Iles, Chrissie. AU - Rifkin, Ned AU - Roulet, Laura PY - 2004 SN - 3775713956 9783775713955 PB - Ostfildern-Ruit Hatje Cantz DB - UniCat KW - Film KW - biological material KW - earthworks [sculpture] KW - body art [visual works, performance] KW - women [female humans] KW - photography [process] KW - Iconography KW - Nature KW - Art KW - performance art KW - Sculpture KW - art [fine art] KW - multimedia works KW - Art styles KW - sculpting KW - motion pictures [visual works] KW - Mendieta, Ana KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - United States KW - Cuba KW - Ana Mendieta 1948-1985 (° Havana, Cuba) KW - Performances ; installaties ; 1972-1985 ; Ana Mendieta KW - Kunst ; van vrouwen ; 20ste eeuw KW - Performances ; Body Art KW - Kunst en feminisme KW - Beeldhouwkunst ; installaties ; projecten ; in en met de natuur KW - 7.07 KW - 7.038 KW - (069) KW - Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z KW - Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 KW - (Musea. Collecties) KW - sculpture [visual works] KW - artists' films KW - Ana Mendieta 1948-1985 (°Havana, Cuba) KW - Mendieta, Ana, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Mendieta, Ana, - 1948-1985 - Exhibitions KW - Mendieta, Ana, - 1948-1985 - Criticism and interpretation KW - Mendieta, Ana, - 1948-1985 KW - art [discipline] KW - dood UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:571294 AB - This lavishly illustrated volume tracing the brief yet prolific career of Ana Mendieta examines her production within the social and artistic fabric of the 1970s and 1980s and reveals her lasting legacy. Heretofore unpublished research gained from exhaustive study of previously unavailable archives, site visits, and extensive interviews allows for the first truly comprehensive biography of the artist. The development of Mendieta's art from early performances and actions to later sculptures and objects, all rooted in nature and the body is traced through texts and images that reveal her complex relationship to Mexico, her native Cuba, contemporary Latin American art, and the international art world. Distinguished by the singular hybrid art form she created - earth-body work - her films, photographs, and actions feature the artist's body work, or its haunting silhouette, in the studio, merged with the landscape, etched on a leaf or burned into soil or a tree trunk. Born in Havana, Mendieta came to the United States without her parents at twelve years of age. Following this painful experience of exile, she quickly absorbed aspects of North American culture while vehemently asserting her identity. She incorporated symbols appropriated from ancient and indigenous cultures of Africa, Europe, and the Americas into a contemporary practice informed by conceptual and process-oriented art and the women's art movement. Though deeply rooted in her own life experience, Mendieta's art reveals her passionate desire to address concerns that affect our society as it struggles with correspondences and differences between individuals, nations, and cultures. ER -