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Women in Mexican Folk Art

Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters, and Celebrities

Eli Bartra

Women in Mexican Folk Art

Eli Bartra

Distributed for University of Wales Press

184 pages | 11 color plates, 86 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2011
University of Wales - Iberian and Latin American Studies
Paper $25.00 ISBN: 9780708323649 Published June 2011 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
Cloth $25.00 ISBN: 9780708323472 Published June 2011 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

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.

Contents

Series Editors’ Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: Folk Art and some of its Myths

Chapter Two: Women and Votive Paintings

Chapter Three: Judas was not a Woman, but…

Chapter Four: Fantastic Art: Alebrijes and Ocumichos

Chapter Five: Frida Kahlo on a Visit to Ocotlán: ‘The Painting’s One Thing, the Clay’s Another’

Chapter Six: The Paintings on the Serapes of Teotitlán

Chapter Seven: From Humble Rag Dolls to Zapatistas

Chapter Eight: Embroiderers of Miracles

Epilogue

Notes

Biography

Index

Review Quotes
J. B. Wolford | Choice
“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.”
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