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An analysis of the career of Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-American feminist artist who came to prominence in the late 70s and early 80s, in terms of gender and performance theory

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Where Is Ana Mendieta?
1. Fire
2. Earth
3. Exile
4. Travel
5. Body
Conclusion: Writing toward Disappearance
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jane Blocker is Assistant Professor of Art History at Georgia State University.

Reviews

"Blocker argues that Mendieta's interaction with the earth engaged other aspects of her identity, specifically her nationality and ethnicity. In retrospect it looks as if Mendieta risked much by remaining so true to her commitment to an art that 'eliminates the object, subverts the artist's authority ...' It has needed someone like Blocker to retrieve the complexity of such a body of work from clumsy simplification." --MAKE, June - August 1999 "This is a very important study of one of the most ambitious and intriguing artists of our time. Blocker's work opens up the relationship between theories of historiography and performance, thus helping to bring art history into an interdisciplinary conversation". ([PERMISSION PENDING] Peggy Phelan)