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Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. She is considered one of the most influential Cuban-American artists of the post–World War II era.
Untitled (Rape Scene) is a color photograph documentation created from a 35mm slide by Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta. [1] She made it during an April 1973 performance while still a student at the University of Iowa. It is one of three photographs she created in reaction to the rape and murder of a woman on campus. [2]
Ana Mendieta left Cuba to the United States in her teenage years, during the Castro regime. Ana Mendieta 's prolific performance work, specially her Silueta series (1973-1985), organized around interventions into the landscape, is remembered in relation to ecofeminism, transatlantic histories, and afro-religious rituals.
Artwork by Ana Mendieta are on display at the de la Cruz Collection on Monday, April 8, 2024, in Miami, Florida. Works that were owned by Rosa de la Cruz will soon be on sale following her death ...
Artwork by Ana Mendieta are on display at the de la Cruz Collection on Monday, April 8, 2024, in Miami, Florida. The “Sandwoman” sculpture was sold in auction at Christie’s on May 14, 2024 ...
(The novel is actually based on the real-life story of Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta, who fell out of a window and died in 1985, at the peak of her career.
Carl Andre (September 16, 1935 – January 24, 2024) was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks (such as Stone Field Sculpture, 1977, in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] and Lament for the Children, 1976, [2] in Long Island City, New York), to large interior works exhibited on the floor (such as 144 ...
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Ana Mendieta, who would become a well-known multimedia and performance artist, emigrated to the United States with her older sister. Some Pedro Pan children would involve themselves in the Abdala organization, an organization of Cuban-American students dedicated to protesting the Cuban government and promoting Cuban ...