Crafting Gender Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Fine art in Latin America and the Caribbean
Duke Academy Press, 2003
eISBN: 978-0-8223-8487-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8223-3182-7 | Paper: 978-0-8223-3170-4
Library of Congress Classification NK802.C7 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 745.082
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This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk fine art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "fine art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk fine art is not solely the province of women, but folk art past women in Latin America has received fiddling sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap in scholarship. From a feminist perspective, the contributors examine non only twentieth-century and contemporary art past women, merely also its production, distribution, and consumption. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts, they look at a range of artistic forms across Latin America, including Panamanian molas (blouses), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, and Mayan hipiles (dresses).
Art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from Latin America, the Caribbean area, and the U.s.a. discuss artwork from United mexican states, Argentina, Republic of chile, Colombia, Republic of 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 fine 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 information technology.
Contributors
Eli Bartra
Ronald J. Duncan
Dolores Juliano
Betty LaDuke
Lourdes Rejón Patrón
Sally Price
María de Jesús Rodríguez-Shadow
Mari Lyn Salvador
Norma Valle
Dorothea Scott Whitten
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Eli Bartra is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco in United mexican states City. She is the author of numerous books in Spanish.
REVIEWS
"Crafting Gender deftly fills a gaping pigsty in gender studies by providing a rich body of information on women's traditional arts. Exploring the distinctions between fine art, 'folk fine art,' and simply plain work in a corking variety of cultures, the authors illuminate social context, belief systems, aesthetics, and technique, expanding the field to areas not well known exterior of academia and Latin America. Feminists, artists, and scholars will find much material in Eli Bartra's volume with which to mold and weave their own forms."—Lucy R. Lippard, author of The Pink Drinking glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art
"Crafting Gender is an original collection that presents in one volume several subjects mostly treated separately, integrates them with a gender perspective, and offers an approach that is truly innovative."—Marysa Navarro, coauthor of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History
Table OF CONTENTS
- Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments nine
Introduction / Eli Bartra i
Ever Something New: Changing Fashions in a "Traditional Culture" (Suriname) / Sally Toll 17
The Emergence of the Santeras: Renewed Strength for Traditional Puerto Rican Art (Puerto Rico) / Norma Valle 35
Kuna Women's Art: Molas, Pregnant, and Markets (Panama) / Mari Lyn Salvador 47
Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua women (Ecuador) / Dorothea Scott Whitten 73
Engendering Clay: Las Ceramistas of Mata Ortiz (Mexico) / Eli Bartra 98
Women'southward Folk Art in La Chamba, Colombia (Colombia) / Ronald J. Duncan 126
The Mapuche Craftswomen (Argentina) / Dolores Juliano 155
Women's Prayers: The Aesthetics and Significant of Female Votive Paintings in Chalma (Mexico) / María J. Rodríguez-Shadow 169
Globe Magic: The Legacy of Teodora Blanco (Mexico) / Betty LaDuke 197
Tastes, Colors, and Techniques in Embroidered Mayan Female Costumes (Mexico) / Lourdes Rejón Patrón 220
Contributors 237
Index 241
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