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Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City (The Mexican Experience) by Aceves Sepúlveda, Gabriela; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City (The Mexican Experience) about?

In post-1968 Mexico a group of artists and feminist activists began to question how feminine bodies were visually constructed and politicized across media. Participation of women was increasing in the public sphere, and the exclusive emphasis on written culture was giving way to audio-visual communications. Motivated by a desire for self-representation both visually and in politics, female artists and activists transformed existing regimes of media and visuality. Women Made Visible by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda uses a transnational and interdisciplinary lens to analyze the fundamental and overlooked role played by artists and feminist activists in changing the ways female bodies were viewed and appropriated. Through their concern for self-representation (both visually and in formal politics), these women played a crucial role in transforming existing regimes of media and visuality—increasingly important intellectual spheres of action. Foregrounding the work of female artists and their performative and visual, rather than written, interventions in urban space in Mexico City, Aceves Sepúlveda demonstrates that these women feminized Mexico’s mediascapes and shaped the debates over the

Author

Aceves Sepúlveda, Gabriela;

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496213242

Subjects

Art, Arts