Mexico is home to some of the world’s most extraordinary folk art, and the majority of its highly acclaimed pieces were created by women. Looking closely at eight types of Mexican folk art, including votive paintings, embroidered exvotos, cardboard Judas dolls, reproductions of Frida Kahlo’s paintings made of clay, and clay figures from Cumicho called alebrijes, this beautifully illustrated volume is one of the first to trace the role and effects of gender on both the objects of Mexican folk art and the knowledge and life experiences that lie behind them.
By:
Eli Bartra
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780708323649
ISBN 10: 0708323642
Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 June 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Folk Art and some of its Myths Women and Votive Paintings Judas was not a Woman, but - Fantastic Arts: Alebrijes and Ocumichos Monsters of a Thousand Colors Laughing Little Devils 'High' Art in Ocumicho Frida Kahlo on a Visit to Ocotlan: 'The Painting's One Thing, the Clay's Another' The Paintings on the Sarapes of Teotitlan From Humble Rag Dolls to Zapatistas Embroiderers of Miracles
Professor Eli Bartra is based in La Division de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico. She has published widely in Women's Studies in both Spanish and English.
Reviews for Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities
"""Women's studies professor Bartra writes provocatively and compellingly about the role of women artists in society... Her documentation of Mexican women artists, a group generally ignored in art history scholarship, is important and necessary... Bartra construct[s] the relevant critical structures by which readers can arrive at a fuller and fairer comprehension of the cultural roles and activities of women artists in their societies. Recommended.""-J. B. Wolford ""Choice """