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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 (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.
Viso has curated many major exhibitions, including Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985, a retrospective of about 100 works shown at the Hirshhorn and the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2004. [10] Another exhibition Viso curated was Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take.
The Winter Show’s 70th edition—open now through February 2— features treasures ranging from quirky furniture to a Fabergé rarity.
DEATH OF AN ARTIST. A podcast in conjunction with Pushkin Industries and Somethin' else and Sony evaluating the significance of women and non-white persons in modern art through the life and tragic death of artist Ana Mendieta. One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Molesworth, Helen. Prestel, 2018. [37] ISBN 978-3791357669
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
Years after her death, specially since the Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective in 2004 [188] and the retrospective in the Haywart Gallery in London in 2013 [189] she is considered a pioneer of performance art and other practices related to body art and land art, sculpture and photography. [190] She described her own work as earth-body art.
In 1972, rebelling against the compulsion to be beautiful, Ana Mendieta pressed her face against a glass plane, so as to squash and distort it. A few years later, while unaware of Mendieta’s work, Katalin Ladik did something similar in Yugoslavia. Other female artists made work relating to allegorical statues and paintings.