Pérez / Laura E. Perez / Leimer Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

Art, Weaving, Vision
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2293-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 414 Seiten

The contributors to this volume examine the artistic practice of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, whose innovative art and urgent engagement with a range of pressing contemporary issues mark her as one of the most vital artists of our time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pérez, Laura E.

Laura E. Perez, Perez

Leimer, Ann Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi
Preface. The Art of Necessity / Luis Valdez xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction / Laura E. Pérez and Ann Marie Leimer 1
I. Spinning—Making Thread
1. The Hands of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: A Filmmaker's Reflections / Carol Sauvion 25
2. Charged Objects: The Multivalent Fiber Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Christine Laffer 35
II. Weaving—Hand Work
3. History/Whose-Story? Postcoloniality and Contemporary Chicana Art / Constance Cortez 53
4. A Tear in the Curtain: Hilos y Cultura in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Amalia Mesa-Bains 71
5. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social—Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Welcome to Flower-Landia / Laura E. Pérez 80
6. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Welcome to Flower-Landia / María Ester Fernández 91
7. Between the Lines: Documenting Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fiber Pathways / Emily Zaiden 100
8. Flags, the Sacred, and a Different America in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fiber Art / Clara Román-Odio 111
9. Garments for the Goddess of the Américas: The American Dress Triptych / Ann Marie Leimer 123
10. Space, Place, and Belonging in Borderlines: Countermapping in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Karen Mary Davalos 142
11. Decolonizing Aesthetics in Mexican and Xicana Fiber Art: The Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Georgina Santos / Cristina Serna 161
12. Reading Our Mothers: Decolonization and Cultural Identity in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Rebozos for Our Mothers / Carmen Febles 181
13. Weaving Water: Toward an Indigenous Method of Self- and Community Care / Jenell Navarro 198
III. Off the Loom—Into the World
14. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Artist, Educator, and Advocate / Robert Milnes 221
15. Being Chicanx Studies: Lessons for Racial Justice from the Work and Life of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Marcus Pizarro 239
16. Blue Río Tapestries / Verónica Reyes 244
Notes 261
Bibliography 290
Contributors 304
Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

Laura E. Pérez is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial and Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities, both also published by Duke University Press.

Ann Marie Leimer is Professor of Art at Midwestern State University and a scholar and curator of Chicanx art.