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The Other Fridas

The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists

Edited by Luciana Namorato; Debora Thome and João Nemi Neto - Contributions by Luciana Namorato; João Nemi Neto; Debora Thome; Yamila Azize-Vargas; Mila Burns; Ben De Witte; Lorna Dillon; Maria Elva Echenique; Luciana Carvalho Fonseca; Gabriela Germaná; Ann Marie Leimer; Andrea Lepage; Elvira Aballi Morell; Andrea Villa Ruiz; Rosita Scerbo; Alysa Schroff; Dennys Silva-Reis; Sandra Sousa and Anastasiya Stoyneva

The Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different countries, and seeks to understand their artistic contributions and their complex lives. Frida Kahlo is one of the most recognizable women artists of the Western world and an icon of feminism. Yet, Latin America has produced many other women artists who, like Kahlo, challenged conventions of their day, transgressed gender stereotypes, and significantly contributed to cultural and artistic realms. Most have been overshadowed by their male counterparts; and while some have been recognized in their home countries, the vast majority have remained in obscurity at home and abroad. This collection brings together sixteen essays, and features such artists as Chilean composer Violeta Parra, Cuban painter Belkis Ayón, nineteenth-century Portuguese-Brazilian actress Maria Velluti, Puerto Rican painter and sculptor Luisa Géigel Brunet, and many more. This book celebrates the lives and creativity of these underrecognized artists, and the contributions that they have made towards Latin American art.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 276 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66696-304-5 • Hardback • February 2025 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies, Art / Women Artists, Art / Caribbean & Latin American

Luciana Namorato is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington.

Débora Thomé conducts post-doctoral research at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo and teaches at the Columbia Women’s Leadership Network.

João Nemi Neto is senior lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Other Fridas Luciana Namorato and Débora Thomé

Section I: Art as Image

Chapter 1: Out from the Shadows: Vida, Trabajo y Legado de Lola Álvarez Bravo Ann Marie Leimer

Chapter 2: The Unseen Cancerous Body: Challenging the Normative Eroticized Breast in the Photo Book Recursos Humanos (2000), by Gabriela Liffschitz (Rosita Scerbo)

Chapter 3: Luisa Géigel Brunet, 1916–2008: Hidden Icon of the Arts in Puerto Rico Yamila Azize-Vargas

Chapter 4: The Mythological Consciousness of Belkis Ayón: A Path for Resistance Elvira Aballí Morell

Chapter 5: Judith F. Baca before El Taller Siqueiros: Collective Production and the 1976 Section of The Great Wall of Los Angeles Andrea Lepage

Section II: Art as Text

Chapter 6: Guadalupe Marín and the texto desmadrado Alysa Schroff

Chapter 7: Yolanda Bedregal: On Women’s Writing Maria Elva Echenique

Chapter 8: Astrid H. Roemer: Postcolonial Writing in the Black Diaspora Ben De Witte

Chapter 9: Freedom Lost, Freedom Found in the Poetry of Delmira Agustini and Juana de Ibarbourou Anastasiya Stoyneva

Section III: Art as Form

Chapter 10: Embroidering Folk Culture: Violeta Parra’s Art Lorna Dillon

Chapter 11: Metal Bodies: Discourses on the Body in the Work in Metal of Contemporary Peruvian Women Artists Gabriela Germaná

Chapter 12: Redeeming Memory Through the Dysfunctional, Dis-United “No-Body”: A Neo-Baroque Approach to Doris Salcedo’s Artistic Work Andrea Villa Ruiz

Section IV: Art as Movement

Chapter 13: Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Women in Cinema: Sônia Braga and Sara Gómez Sandra Sousa

Chapter 14: Maria Velluti’s Mise-en-Scène: Translating a Woman Dramatist in Nineteenth-century Brazil Luciana Carvalho Fonseca and Dennys Silva-Reis

Chapter 15: Cannibalism, Lygia Clark’s Body, and her Anthropophagic Slobber João Nemi Neto

Section V: Art as Sound

Chapter 16: A Musical Constellation: Sorority and Authorship in the Work of Dona Ivone Lara Mila Burns

About the Contributors

"The Other Fridas is an important contribution to feminist and gender studies, particularly in the context of Latin American female artists. The collection of sixteen articles aims to bring attention to the work of underrecognized Latin American women artists who worked from the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century. These artists, working across various forms of art like photography, painting, novels, poetry, film, and music, have been historically overlooked by both the public and academia. Given its interdisciplinary approach, The Other Fridas will likely become a valuable resource for courses in cultural studies, feminism, and gender studies, promoting the recognition of these artists worldwide."


— Christian Fernández, Louisiana State University


"The Other Fridas is a timely contribution to the field of Latin American Studies. Working against stereotypes and patriarchal canon formation, this collection of essays challenges our common knowledge of women artists and writers. It offers not only the examination of the work of new Latin American creators, but also shows us that there is an iceberg of cultural production waiting to be known. Punching trough national intellectual borders, The Other Fridas is an ambitious compilation that remaps the struggle and collaboration that women artists have endured across the Americas, significantly contributing to scholarship in the intersectionality of gender, class and race relations."


— Enrique E. Cortez, Portland State University


"This timely and well-documented critical anthology on Latin American female artists underscores not only a variety of regions but also such wide-ranging media as photography, painting, literature, theatre, music, and murals. Likewise, the theoretical perspectives are extensive, including gender, race, queer studies, disability studies, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, aesthetics, and reception theory. One of the significant successes of this collection of essays is the emphasis on lesser-known artists and genres who have not received the critical attention they deserve, as well as the centrality of the artists’ lived experiences in understating their art. This is a much-needed contribution to scholarship on female artists in Latin America."


— Traci Roberts-Camps, University of the Pacific


"An enriching volume that explores the careers of highly notable women creators from Latin America and that also recognizes the rich theoretical production emanating from this territory."


— Georgina Gluzman, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas


The Other Fridas

The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists

Cover Image
Hardback
Summary
Summary
  • The Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different countries, and seeks to understand their artistic contributions and their complex lives. Frida Kahlo is one of the most recognizable women artists of the Western world and an icon of feminism. Yet, Latin America has produced many other women artists who, like Kahlo, challenged conventions of their day, transgressed gender stereotypes, and significantly contributed to cultural and artistic realms. Most have been overshadowed by their male counterparts; and while some have been recognized in their home countries, the vast majority have remained in obscurity at home and abroad. This collection brings together sixteen essays, and features such artists as Chilean composer Violeta Parra, Cuban painter Belkis Ayón, nineteenth-century Portuguese-Brazilian actress Maria Velluti, Puerto Rican painter and sculptor Luisa Géigel Brunet, and many more. This book celebrates the lives and creativity of these underrecognized artists, and the contributions that they have made towards Latin American art.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 276 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-1-66696-304-5 • Hardback • February 2025 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies, Art / Women Artists, Art / Caribbean & Latin American
Author
Author
  • Luciana Namorato is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington.

    Débora Thomé conducts post-doctoral research at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo and teaches at the Columbia Women’s Leadership Network.

    João Nemi Neto is senior lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments

    Introduction: The Other Fridas Luciana Namorato and Débora Thomé

    Section I: Art as Image

    Chapter 1: Out from the Shadows: Vida, Trabajo y Legado de Lola Álvarez Bravo Ann Marie Leimer

    Chapter 2: The Unseen Cancerous Body: Challenging the Normative Eroticized Breast in the Photo Book Recursos Humanos (2000), by Gabriela Liffschitz (Rosita Scerbo)

    Chapter 3: Luisa Géigel Brunet, 1916–2008: Hidden Icon of the Arts in Puerto Rico Yamila Azize-Vargas

    Chapter 4: The Mythological Consciousness of Belkis Ayón: A Path for Resistance Elvira Aballí Morell

    Chapter 5: Judith F. Baca before El Taller Siqueiros: Collective Production and the 1976 Section of The Great Wall of Los Angeles Andrea Lepage

    Section II: Art as Text

    Chapter 6: Guadalupe Marín and the texto desmadrado Alysa Schroff

    Chapter 7: Yolanda Bedregal: On Women’s Writing Maria Elva Echenique

    Chapter 8: Astrid H. Roemer: Postcolonial Writing in the Black Diaspora Ben De Witte

    Chapter 9: Freedom Lost, Freedom Found in the Poetry of Delmira Agustini and Juana de Ibarbourou Anastasiya Stoyneva

    Section III: Art as Form

    Chapter 10: Embroidering Folk Culture: Violeta Parra’s Art Lorna Dillon

    Chapter 11: Metal Bodies: Discourses on the Body in the Work in Metal of Contemporary Peruvian Women Artists Gabriela Germaná

    Chapter 12: Redeeming Memory Through the Dysfunctional, Dis-United “No-Body”: A Neo-Baroque Approach to Doris Salcedo’s Artistic Work Andrea Villa Ruiz

    Section IV: Art as Movement

    Chapter 13: Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Women in Cinema: Sônia Braga and Sara Gómez Sandra Sousa

    Chapter 14: Maria Velluti’s Mise-en-Scène: Translating a Woman Dramatist in Nineteenth-century Brazil Luciana Carvalho Fonseca and Dennys Silva-Reis

    Chapter 15: Cannibalism, Lygia Clark’s Body, and her Anthropophagic Slobber João Nemi Neto

    Section V: Art as Sound

    Chapter 16: A Musical Constellation: Sorority and Authorship in the Work of Dona Ivone Lara Mila Burns

    About the Contributors

Reviews
Reviews
  • "The Other Fridas is an important contribution to feminist and gender studies, particularly in the context of Latin American female artists. The collection of sixteen articles aims to bring attention to the work of underrecognized Latin American women artists who worked from the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century. These artists, working across various forms of art like photography, painting, novels, poetry, film, and music, have been historically overlooked by both the public and academia. Given its interdisciplinary approach, The Other Fridas will likely become a valuable resource for courses in cultural studies, feminism, and gender studies, promoting the recognition of these artists worldwide."


    — Christian Fernández, Louisiana State University


    "The Other Fridas is a timely contribution to the field of Latin American Studies. Working against stereotypes and patriarchal canon formation, this collection of essays challenges our common knowledge of women artists and writers. It offers not only the examination of the work of new Latin American creators, but also shows us that there is an iceberg of cultural production waiting to be known. Punching trough national intellectual borders, The Other Fridas is an ambitious compilation that remaps the struggle and collaboration that women artists have endured across the Americas, significantly contributing to scholarship in the intersectionality of gender, class and race relations."


    — Enrique E. Cortez, Portland State University


    "This timely and well-documented critical anthology on Latin American female artists underscores not only a variety of regions but also such wide-ranging media as photography, painting, literature, theatre, music, and murals. Likewise, the theoretical perspectives are extensive, including gender, race, queer studies, disability studies, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, aesthetics, and reception theory. One of the significant successes of this collection of essays is the emphasis on lesser-known artists and genres who have not received the critical attention they deserve, as well as the centrality of the artists’ lived experiences in understating their art. This is a much-needed contribution to scholarship on female artists in Latin America."


    — Traci Roberts-Camps, University of the Pacific


    "An enriching volume that explores the careers of highly notable women creators from Latin America and that also recognizes the rich theoretical production emanating from this territory."


    — Georgina Gluzman, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas


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