Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities

by Laura E. Pérez

Book Overview

In Alma Lopez's digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons--the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards--embrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures. Ester Hernandez's 1976 etching Libertad/Liberty depicts a female artist chiseling away at the Statue of Liberty, freeing from within it a regal Mayan woman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338688
• ISBN13: 9780822338680
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.7"