Ana Mendieta: Traces - Softcover

Julia Bryan-Wilson; Adrian Heathfield; Stephanie Rosenthal; Ralph Rugoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853323179 ISBN 13: 9781853323171

Publisher: Hayward Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Ana Mendieta During her short career, Ana Mendieta (1948-85) created a body of work that was provocative and radically inventive. Using her own body, together with elemental materials--blood, fire, earth and water--she created visceral tableaux and ephemeral "earth-body" sculptures exploring life, death, rebirth and spiritual transformation. Much of her art also expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement and exile (Mendieta was born in Cuba, but sent to the US as a child). In her work, the outline of her body is consumed by gunpowder, fireworks, or advancing waves; and ancient goddess-forms are shaped from sand, carved into rock or incised into clay or onto ...

About this edition

• Publisher: Hayward Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1853323179
• ISBN 13: 9781853323171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240