Violeta Parra's Visual Art: Painted Songs Dillon Lorna
This book explores Violeta Parra's visual art, focusing on her embroideries (arpilleras), paintings, papier-mch collages and sculptures. Parra is one of Chile's great artists and musicians, yet her…
Specifikacia Violeta Parra's Visual Art: Painted Songs Dillon Lorna
This book explores Violeta Parra's visual art, focusing on her embroideries (arpilleras), paintings, papier-mch collages and sculptures. Parra is one of Chile's great artists and musicians, yet her visual art is relatively unknown. Her fusion of complex imagery from Chilean folk music and culture with archetypes in Western art results in a hybrid body of work. Parra's hybridism is the story of this book, in which Dillon explores Parra's 'painted songs', the ekphrastic nature of her creations and the way ideas translate from her music and poetry into her visual art. The book identifies three intellectual currents in Parra's art: its relationship to motifs from Chilean popular and oral culture; its relationship to the work of other modern artists; and its relationship to the themes of her protest music. It argues that Parra's commentaries on inequality and injustice have as much
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