9780292726420-0292726422-Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition” (Chicana Matters)

Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition” (Chicana Matters)

ISBN-13: 9780292726420
ISBN-10: 0292726422
Edition: Pap/DVD
Author: Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Alma López
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback 344 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780292726420
ISBN-10: 0292726422
Edition: Pap/DVD
Author: Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Alma López
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback 344 pages

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Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition” (Chicana Matters) (ISBN-13: 9780292726420 and ISBN-10: 0292726422), written by authors Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Alma López, was published by University of Texas Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Monographs (Individual Artists, Arts Collections, Criticism, Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition” (Chicana Matters) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Monographs books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.72.

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Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats ensued, but the provocative image of la Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad only in roses, and exalted by a bare-breasted butterfly angel) remained on exhibition.

Highlighting many of the pivotal questions that have haunted the art world since the NEA debacle of 1988, the contributors to Our Lady of Controversy present diverse perspectives, ranging from definitions of art to the artist's intention, feminism, queer theory, colonialism, and Chicano nationalism. Contributors include the exhibition curator, Tey Marianna Nunn; award-winning novelist and Chicana historian Emma Pérez; and Deena González (recognized as one of the fifty most important living women historians in America).

Accompanied by a bonus DVD of Alma López's I Love Lupe video that looks at the Chicana artistic tradition of reimagining la Virgen de Guadalupe, featuring a historic conversation between Yolanda López, Ester Hernández, and Alma López, Our Lady of Controversy promises to ignite important new dialogues.

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