Overview

This open access book begins by setting out a conceptual, political, historical, and personal framework that serves to anchor the Mexican visual culture it goes on to address. To this end, it also provides a brief overview of feminist thinking from the late nineteenth century to the present day, which has nourished these visual artists. The notion of uprootedness runs through the entire work, as does the idea of nomadism and nomadic-critical subjects. Eli Bartra addresses loosely defined traditional, modern and contemporary art, including photography and film, as components of the visuality of this corner of the Global South. The book goes beyond recognised figures such as Frida Kahlo, who have dominated Mexico’s visual culture almost exclusively, though it does not dismiss them. It thus offers a visual mosaic that presents the work of photographers, filmmakers and a few artists whose creativity has no qualms about crossing boundaries; one comes from China, another looks out over the Mediterranean, another is based in Guanajuato, another lives in Querétaro, and there is even a European who walks the desert in northern Mexico, unearthing wounds. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective

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Author:   Eli Bartra
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:  

9781666982015

ISBN 10:   1666982016
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   28 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. A Long Struggle for Women’s Equity Chapter 2. Feminism, Esthetics, and Visual Culture On Photography Chapter 3. On Women’s Photographic Portraiture Chapter 4. How to Depict Non-Motherhood? On Cinema Chapter 5. Women in the Cinema of the Mexican Revolution Chapter 6. How Black is La Negra Angustias? Chapter 7. Women, Cinema, and the 1968 Student Movement Chapter 8. Gender and Feminism in the Films of Maricarmen de Lara Chapter 9. Forced Exiles are Always Painful Chapter 10. The Two Fridas Vignettes from an Esthetic Visuality of Lax Boundaries Chapter 11. Frida Kahlo Reincarnated Chapter 12. Tradition and Modernity in Harmon Chapter 13. A Small Visual Jigsaw And to Close Bibliography About the Author

Reviews

“Eli Bartra, renowned commentator on women’s artistic lives in Mexico, introduces us to practitioners in a variety of media, from paintings, posters, and photography to cinema, video, installations, and performance art, offering a remarkably rich set of reflections on everything from race and gender to ethnicity, migration, and political struggle.” * Sally Price, author of Primitive Art in Civilized Places and Paris Primitive *

Author Information

Eli Bartra is Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitan-Xochimilco (UAM-X).

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