Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile Blocker Jane
Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile Blocker Jane Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex…
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Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile Blocker Jane
Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta's diverse body of work. In Where Is Ana Mendieta?
Drawing on the work of such theorists Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history of performance art, installation, and earth works, as well as feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodernism.Taken from banners carried in a 1992 protest outside the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the title phrase "Where is Ana Mendieta?" evokes not only the suspicious and tragic circumstances surrounding her death but also the conspicuous absence of women artists from high-profile exhibitions.