Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities
(Part of the Objects/Histories Series)
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In Alma Lopez's digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons--the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards--embrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures. Ester Hernandez's 1976 etching Libertad/Liberty depicts a female artist chiseling away at the Statue of Liberty, freeing from within it a regal Mayan woman...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822338688
ISBN13:9780822338680
Release Date:August 2007
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:408 Pages
Weight:1.67 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 8.7"
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