{"product_id":"chicana-art-the-politics-of-spiritual-and-aesthetic-altarities-paperback","title":"Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura E. Pérez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Alma Lopez's digital print \u003ci\u003eLupe \u0026amp; Sirena in Love\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eLibertad\/Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCoyolxauhqui Last Seen in East Oakland\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), Irene Perez reimagines as whole the body of the Aztec warrior goddess dismembered in myth. These pieces are part of the dynamic body of work presented in this pioneering, lavishly illustrated study, the first book primarily focused on Chicana visual arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreating an invaluable archive, Laura E. Pérez examines the work of more than forty Chicana artists across a variety of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance, photography, film and video, comics, sound recording, interactive CD-ROM, altars and other installation forms, and fiction, poetry, and plays. While key works from the 1960s and 1970s are discussed, most of the pieces considered were produced between 1985 and 2001. Providing a rich interpretive framework, Pérez describes how Chicana artists invoke a culturally hybrid spirituality to challenge racism, bigotry, patriarchy, and homophobia. They make use of, and often radically rework, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican and other non-Western notions of art and art-making, and they struggle to create liberating versions of familiar iconography such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Sacred Heart. Filled with representations of spirituality and allusions to non-Western visual and cultural traditions, the work of these Chicana artists is a vital contribution to a more inclusive canon of American arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn light of the very real difficulties of engaging the 'spiritual' within the largely secular Enlightenment discourses in the human sciences, Laura E. Perez's work on the realms of the spiritual and the political in art alters the frame of reference, of what can be seen and known.--Rosa Linda Fregoso, author of \"meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura E. Pérez is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.8 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 09, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67895487725720,"sku":"9780822338680","price":55.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/PDPFsdhgil9780822338680.webp?v=1793811125","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/chicana-art-the-politics-of-spiritual-and-aesthetic-altarities-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}