Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by Jose Bedia - Softcover

Bettelheim, Judith; Berlo, Janet Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977834476 ISBN 13: 9780977834471

Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011

Synopsis

Jose Bedia is an artist, practitioner, and devotee whose work emanates from his diverse and often systematic religious journeys, experiences, and encounters. Transcultural Pilgrim invites the reader into Bedia's spiritual worlds, which range from his Cuban birthplace to Central Africa and to the indigenous Americas, as revealed in his distinctive and frequently autobiographical visual language. The power and immediacy of Bedia's large-scale paintings and drawings and the material complexity of his installations immediately draw the viewer into his work. Judith Bettelheim and Janet Catherine Berlo have worked closely with Bedia for years, studying his journeys and their complex representations in his art, as well as the ethnographic collections which inspire him.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Bettelheim is professor of art history emerita at San Francisco State University. Janet Catherine Berlo is professor of art history and visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. Other contributors include Jose Bedia, Lauren Derby, Orlando Hernandez, and Alan Varela.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0977834476
• ISBN 13: 9780977834471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216