Research Catalog

Title

Traces / Ana Mendieta ; edited by Stephanie Rosenthal ; with essays by Stephanie Rosenthal, Adrian Heathfield, Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Publication

• London : Hayward Publishing, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rosenthal, Stephanie
• Heathfield, Adrian
• Bryan-Wilson, Julia
• Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985.
• Hayward Gallery, host institution.
• MdM Salzburg, host institution.

Description

240 pages (some folded) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps; 27 cm

Summary

"During her short career, Ana Mendieta (1948-85) created a body of work that was provocative and radically inventive. Using her own body, together with elemental materials - blood, fire, earth and water - she created visceral 'tableaus' and ephemeral 'earth-body' sculptures exploring life, death, rebirth and spiritual transformation. Born in Cuba, but sent to the US as a child, much of her art expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement and exile. In Mendieta's work the outline of her body is consumed by gunpowder, fireworks, or advancing waves, and ancient goddess-forms are shaped from sand, carved into rock, or incised into clay or onto leaves. The media are exceptionally diverse, but the images are consistently compelling, mysterious and poetic. Encompassing a wealth of drawings, photography and film, Ana Mendieta: Traces provides a comprehensive and illuminating overview of this highly influential artist's work. Essays by art historians, Julia Bryan-Wilson and Adrian Heathfield, as well as Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator at Hayward Gallery, provide an array of new approaches to Mendieta's practice. This publication also includes a wide-ranging and highly illustrated anthology of never-before-seen material, including Mendieta's own notebooks, exhibition plans and correspondence, the result of unparalleled access to the Ana Mendieta Archive. Filled with new imagery, ephemera and scholarship, Ana Mendieta: Traces provides a comprehensive introduction to this major twentieth-century artist, as essential for Mendieta experts as for those coming to her work for the first time." -- Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

• Traces : Ana Mendieta
• Ana Mendieta : traces

Subjects

• Artists > United States > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985 > Exhibitions
• Art and Design
• Exhibition catalogs
• Art, Cuban > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Artists > Cuba > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 238).

Exhibitions (note)

• Published to accompany the exhibition held at Hayward Gallery, London, 24th September-15th December 2013 and Museum der Moderne, 29th March-6th July 2014.

Contents

Foreword / Ralph Rugoff -- Ana Mendieta : traces / Stephanie Rosenthal -- Embers / Adrian Heathfield -- Against the body : interpreting Ana Mendieta / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Plates -- Anthology : map, conversations, lectures, notebooks, installation views, postcards, ephemera.

Call Number

JQF 14-604

ISBN

• 9781853323171 (paperback)
• 1853323179 (paperback)

OCLC

• 864699508
• 864699508

Title

Traces / Ana Mendieta ; edited by Stephanie Rosenthal ; with essays by Stephanie Rosenthal, Adrian Heathfield, Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Publisher

London : Hayward Publishing, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 238).

Exhibitions

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Hayward Gallery, London, 24th September-15th December 2013 and Museum der Moderne, 29th March-6th July 2014.

Added Author

Rosenthal, Stephanie, author, editor.

Heathfield, Adrian, author.

Bryan-Wilson, Julia, author.

Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985. Works. Selections.

Hayward Gallery, host institution.

MdM Salzburg, host institution.

Added Title Page Title

Ana Mendieta : traces

Research Call Number

JQF 14-604