Ana Mendieta Livres

Unseen Mendieta zeigt eine umfangreiche Auswahl bisher unveröffentlichter Werke der früh verstorbenen Perfomance-Künstlerin Ana Mendieta. Sie wurde in den 70er Jahren vor allem durch ihre Silueta-Serie berühmt – Arbeiten, bei denen sie mit ihrem eigenen Körper oder dessen Silhouette eine vergängliche Synthese mit der Natur zelebrierte. Umfassende Fotostrecken und begleitende Essays dokumentieren sowohl die Entstehungsprozesse ihrer Werke als auch deren schöpferische und spirituelle Spannweite im Kontext ihrer Zeit.

This major monograph, a comprehensive reconsideration of the brief life and career of Ana Mendieta, contextualizes the artist's work within its time and acknowledges her legacy on subsequent generations of artists. The Cuban-born American sculptor is celebrated for her earth-body works of the 1970s, sculptural interventions in the landscape that placed her body--or its haunting silhouette--in symbiotic relationship with nature. Using extracts from her films, original slide documentation, photography, and other archival material, this catalogue illustrates early performances from Mendieta's student days, as well as her more well-known "Silueta Series" made in Iowa and Mexico from 1973 to 1980. Earth-body works executed in Canada, Cuba and the United States in the early 1980s, and select sculptures, drawings and installations dating to the mid-80s will also be illustrated. This publication promises to be the definitive study of the artist's work.

Tracing artists' increasing use of their bodies as subject and actual material of their artworks, this title charts the rise of new forms of expression such as Body Art, Happenings, Performance and Live Art.