Women in Mexican Folk Art
Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters, and Celebrities
Distributed for University of Wales Press
Women in Mexican Folk Art
Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters, and Celebrities
Mexico is home to some of the world’s most extraordinary folk art, and the majority of its highly acclaimed pieces were created by women. Looking closely at eight types of Mexican folk art, including votive paintings, embroidered exvotos, cardboard Judas dolls, reproductions of Frida Kahlo’s paintings made of clay, and clay figures from Cumicho called alebrijes, this beautifully illustrated volume is one of the first to trace the role and effects of gender on both the objects of Mexican folk art and the knowledge and life experiences that lie behind them.
256 pages | 11 color plates, 86 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2011
Iberian and Latin American Studies
Art: Art--General Studies
Reviews
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Folk Art and some of its Myths
Chapter Two: Women and Votive Paintings
Chapter Three: Judas was not a Woman, but…
Chapter Four: Fantastic Art: Alebrijes and Ocumichos
Chapter Five: Frida Kahlo on a Visit to Ocotlán: ‘The Painting’s One Thing, the Clay’s Another’
Chapter Six: The Paintings on the Serapes of Teotitlán
Chapter Seven: From Humble Rag Dolls to Zapatistas
Chapter Eight: Embroiderers of Miracles
Epilogue
Notes
Biography
Index