The European Dada movement of the early twentieth century has long been regarded as a male preserve, one in which women have been relegated to footnotes or mentioned only as the wives, girlfriends, or sisters of Dada men. This book challenges that assumption, focusing on the creative contributions made to Dada by five pivotal European women.
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Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered. This biography charts Lange's journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, from San Francisco portrait photographer to chronicler of the Great Depression and Second World War.
Unravels Western fantasies and myths about the East which were woven over the ages. This work offers an analysis of Europe's fabricated Orient, as expressed in its writings and illustrated in its paintings.
Art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States discuss artwork from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Suriname, and Puerto Rico, and many of their essays focus on indigenous artists. They highlight the complex webs of social relations from which folk art emerges. For instance, while several pieces describe the similar creative and technical processes of indigenous pottery-making communities of the Amazon and of mestiza potters in Mexico and Colombia, they also reveal the widely varying functions of the ceramics and meanings of the iconography. Integrating the social, historical, political, geographical, and economic factors that shape folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean, Crafting Gender sheds much-needed light on a rich body of art and the women who create it.
Contributors
Eli Bartra
Ronald J. Duncan
Dolores Juliano
Betty LaDuke
Lourdes Rejón Patrón
Sally Price
MarÃa de Jesús RodrÃguez-Shadow
Mari Lyn Salvador
Norma Valle
Dorothea Scott Whitten
From Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers, 'Charlie's Angels' to 'The Powerpuff Girls', Superwomen are more than just sidekicks who stand by their Supermen. Featuring spies and sexuality, daddy's girls and super-mothers, this is a guide to female detectives, meta-humans and action heroines, as well as their creators, directors, performers, and consumers.
Based on conversations with directors and actors who knew her, this book is a study of the British post-war dramatist, Sarah Kane. It covers all her major plays and productions, as well as unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her continuing influence after her tragic early death.
