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Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world. The artist Ana Mendieta (19481985) is remembered as the creator of powerful works expressing a vibrant and unflinching second-wave feminist sensibility. In Radical Virtuosity , art historian Genevieve Hyacinthe offers a new view of Mendieta, connecting her innovative artwork to the art, cultural aesthetics and concerns, feminisms, and sociopolitical messages of the black Atlantic. Mendieta left Cuba as a preteen, fleeing the Castro regime, and spent years in U.S. foster care. Her sense of exile, Hyacinthe argues, colors her work. Hyacinthe examines the development of Mendieta's performative artworksparticularly the Silueta series (19731985), which documented the silhouette of her body in the earth over time (a series without end, Mendieta said)and argues that these works were shaped by Mendieta's appropriation and reimagining of Afro-Cuban ritual. Mendieta's effort to create works that invited audience participation, Hyacinthe says, signals her interest in forging connections with the marginalized, particularly those of the black Atlant

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Author

Hyacinthe, Genevieve,

Publisher

The MIT Press, [2019]

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262042703

Category

performing arts

Subjects

Art, Arts

Rating

5 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14