Consuelo Jimenez Underwood (eBook, PDF)

Art, Weaving, Vision
Redaktion: Laura E. Perez, Perez

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Produktbeschreibung

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's artwork is marked by her compassionate and urgent engagement with a range of pressing contemporary issues, from immigration and environmental precarity to the resilience of Indigenous ancestral values and the necessity of decolonial aesthetics in art making. Drawing on the fiber arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Chicana feminist art, and Indigenous fiber- and loom-based traditions, Jimenez Underwood's art encompasses needlework, weaving, painted and silkscreened pieces, installations, sculptures, and performance. This volume's contributors write about her place in feminist textile art history, situate her work among that of other Indigenous-identified feminist artists, and explore her signature works, series, techniques, images, and materials. Redefining the practice of weaving, Jimenez Underwood works with repurposed barbed wire, yellow caution tape, safety pins, and plastic bags and crosses Indigenous, Chicana, European, and Euro-American art practices, pushing the arts of the Americas beyond Eurocentric aesthetics toward culturally hybrid and Indigenous understandings of art making. Jimenez Underwood's redefinition of weaving and painting alongside the socially and environmentally engaged dimensions of her work position her as one of the most vital artists of our time.Contributors. Constance Cortez, Karen Mary Davalos, Carmen Febles, Maria Esther Fernandez, Christine Laffer, Ann Marie Leimer, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Robert Milnes, Jenell Navarro, Laura E. Perez, Marcos Pizarro, Veronica Reyes, Clara Roman-Odio, Carol Sauvion, Cristina Serna, Emily Zaiden

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478022930
• Artikelnr.: 66282737

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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