María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo

Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art

Nancy Deffebach (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

251 Seiten

2015
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-1281-0 (ISBN)

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María Izquierdo (1902–1955) and Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) were the first two Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition. During the height of the Mexican muralist movement, they established successful careers as easel painters and created work that has become an integral part of Mexican modernism. Although the iconic Kahlo is now more famous, the two artists had comparable reputations during their lives. Both were regularly included in major exhibitions of Mexican art, and they were invariably the only women chosen for the most important professional activities and honors.

In a deeply informed study that prioritizes critical analysis over biographical interpretation, Nancy Deffebach places Kahlo’s and Izquierdo’s oeuvres in their cultural context, examining the ways in which the artists participated in the national and artistic discourses of postrevolutionary Mexico. Through iconographic analysis of paintings and themes within each artist’s oeuvre, Deffebach discusses how the artists engaged intellectually with the issues and ideas of their era, especially Mexican national identity and the role of women in society. In a time when Mexican artistic and national discourses associated the nation with masculinity, Izquierdo and Kahlo created images of women that deconstructed gender roles, critiqued the status quo, and presented more empowering alternatives for women. Deffebach demonstrates that, paradoxically, Kahlo and Izquierdo became the most successful Mexican women artists of the modernist period while most directly challenging the prevailing ideas about gender and what constitutes important art.

Nancy Deffebach is an art historian who specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American art. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and has taught art history at San Diego State University, Georgia State University, Rice University, and the University of Houston.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Problem of the Hero

1. Women on the Wire: Izquierdo's Images of Female Circus Performers
2. Saints and Goddesses: Kahlo's Appropriations of Religious Iconography in Her Self-portraits

Part Two: Legitimating Traditions

3. Revitalizing the Past: Precolumbian Figures from West Mexico in Kahlo's Paintings
4. Kahlo's The Girl, the Moon and the Sun, 1942
5. Mother of the Maize: Izquierdo's Images of Rural Gardens with Granaries

Part Three: The Wall of Resistance

6. What Sex Is the City? Izquierdo's Aborted Mural Project

Part Four: Still-Life Paintings

7. Picantes pero sabrosas: Kahlo's Still-Life Paintings and Related Images
8. Grain of Memory: Izquierdo's Paintings of Altars to the Virgin of Sorrows

Part Five: Women's Rights in Modern Mexico

9. Beyond the Canvas: Izquierdo, Kahlo, and Women's Rights

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	821 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	1-4773-1281-1 / 1477312811
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-1281-0 / 9781477312810
Zustand	Neuware