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Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective
1987réf. 17744New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Very good/very good. First Edition. Paperback. 10" x 9.5". 85pp. Mild shelf contents clean and bright. Very good. Published just two years after Mendieta's death in 1985 this catalogue represents the first major museum retrospective of her work and remains a foundational document in her critical reception. Organized with the cooperation of Mendieta's estate and family - her sister Raquel Mendieta Harrington served on the exhibition committee - the volume gathers the artist's own unpublished statements alongside John Perreault's essay "Earth and Fire: Mendieta's Body of Work" and Petra Barreras del Rio's historical overview situating the Siluetas and earth-body works within feminist land art and diasporic Cuban contexts before that framework had fully solidified in the literature. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout with a selection of color plates reproducing key works from the Silueta Fetish and Tree of Life series the catalogue functions less as an exhibition record than as a primary archive of a body of work whose physical traces mostly no longer exist published while institutional and scholarly interest in Mendieta was still being formed rather than retrospectively assembled. 10" x 9.5". 85pp. Mild shelf contents clean and bright. Very good. Published just two years after Mendieta's death in 1985 this catalogue represents the first major museum retrospective of her work and remains a foundational document in her critical reception. Organized with the cooperation of Mendieta's estate and family - her sister Raquel Mendieta Harrington served on the exhibition committee - the volume gathers the artist's own unpublished statements alongside John Perreault's essay "Earth and Fire: Mendieta's Body of Work" and Petra Barreras del Rio's historical overview situating the Siluetas and earth-body works within feminist land art and diasporic Cuban contexts before that framework had fully solidified in the literature. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout with a selection of color plates reproducing key works from the Silueta Fetish and Tree of Life series the catalogue functions less as an exhibition record than as a primary archive of a body of work whose physical traces mostly no longer exist published while institutional and scholarly interest in Mendieta was still being formed rather than retrospectively assembled. The New Museum of Contemporary Art paperback books
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