Women in Mexican folk art : of promises, betrayals, monsters and celebrities

Women in Mexican folk art : of promises, betrayals, monsters and celebrities / Eli Bartra.

"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 Kahl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bartra, Eli (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
Series:Iberian and Latin American studies.
Subjects:
Folk art > Mexico.
Women artists > Mexico.
Women in art.
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
Folk art
Women artists
Women in art
Mexico
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Table of Contents:
  • Folk art and some of its myths
  • Women and votive paintings
  • Judas was not a woman, but-
  • Fantastic art : alebrijes and ocumichos
  • Frida Kahlo on a visit to Ocotlán : the painting's one thing, the clay's another
  • The paintings on the serapes of Teotitlán
  • From humble rag dolls to Zapatistas
  • Embroiderers of miracles.

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