Images of the Spirit
Language: English
Published by Aperture (edition First Edition), 1996
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- Title
- Images of the Spirit
- Publisher
- Aperture (edition First Edition)
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0893816817
- ISBN 13
- 9780893816810
- Edition
- First Edition.
As the poet and critic Roberto Tejada points out in his Preface, "Sidelong Mirrors and Invisible Masks," Iturbide's photographs "underline time and again the rift between belonging and citizenship, rendered often against a backdrop of Mexican icons or heroes--be it the frail displacement of a rural campesino in Puebla, or the triumph of locals in East Los Angeles." Tejada who has lived in Mexico for the last ten years, provides a trenchant illumination of this Mexican photographer's use of her country's lore and stories of conquest, it's pre-Hispanic past, its indigenous visual vocabulary, and its centuries of tradition and ceremony, often infused with Christian iconography.
Writer and scholar Alfredo López Austin is an anthropologist studying Latin American cultures. In his series of letters to Iturbide, which form the poetic Epilogue to Images of the Spirit, he envisions her "on a promontory set over the world in such a way as to see from one ocean to the other, to approach the vault of heaven and to surpass the artificial boundaries." Reflecting on the breadth of her expansive, insightful mind while invoking many narrative voices and identities drawn from Mexico's richly vibrant mythologies, López Austin shows us how Iturbide's photographs mirror the artist herself. Through his writing Iturbide is revealed as observer, searcher, affirmer.
Images of the Spirit is produced at the highest level of the printer's art, enhancing the resonance of Iturbide's imagery, and the luminosity of her vision. Iturbide's compassion and dedication to her native land and its people make Images of the Spirit a power evocation of the underlying forces inspiring the complex, diverse, and ever-changing cultural landscape of Mexico.
This aperture publication accompanies a traveling exhibition that opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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About the Author
Alfredo López Austin is one of Mexico's most eminent anthropologists. He is currently a research associate at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antroplógicas and a humanities professor of Mesoamerican studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is the author of several works, many of which have been translated into English, including The Human Body and Ideology (University of Utah Press, 1988). He is a visiting professor at various European universities and is the recipient of various awards, including a 1976 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Roberto Tejada is a poet, translator, and art critic. He edits the English-Spanish bilingual journal Mandorla--an annual of advanced poetry and poetics from the Americas. Tejada was the executive editor of Artes de México, and is presently on the editorial board of Luna córnea, a quarterly journal on photography. His poems and critical writings have appeared in numerous international publications. He has edited En algun ostro lado (Editorial Vuelta, 1992), an anthology of twentieth-century poems on Mexico written by North American and British poets. Tejada has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1987.
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