{"product_id":"amalia-mesabains-9780520395718","title":"Amalia MesaBains","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis first major retrospective of Amalia Mesa-Bains unearths her significant contributions to Chicanx\/Latinx art and feminism.    Best known for her pioneering altar installations, Amalia Mesa-Bains is one of the most innovative feminist and Latinx artists of her generation. In herforty-year career as an artist, activist, educator, and scholar, she has explored theexperiences, spiritual practices, and histories of Mexican American women andaddressed the colonial erasure and recovery of Mexican, African American, andIndigenous Californians. Appropriately called an archaeological practice, Mesa-Bains's art creates sacred spaces imbued with cultural memory, leading viewers on amagical journey of discovery through what might otherwise be lost to existing canons ofhistory.   Amalia Mesa-Bains: The Archaeology of Memoryis the exhibition catalog accompanying the first major retrospective of her work, bringing her installations from the 1970s tothe present together for the first time. Featuring an essay by the artist and an interviewwith her, the book also brings together top-tier scholars who explore the ecofeminism, migranthistories, spirituality, and politics of erasure that ground her interdisciplinary practice. As a whole, the book cements Mesa-Bains's place as atrailblazing artist within the history of art.    Published in association with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.    Exhibition dates:  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: February 4-August 13, 2023  Phoenix Art Museum: November 2023-March 2024  El Museo del Barrio, New York City: April 2024-August 2024  San Antonio Art Museum: October 2024-January 2025  Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Arts and Culture, Riverside, CA: March 2025-August 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Director's Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Juli Rodrigues Widholm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Laura E. Perez and Maria Esther Fernandez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e Amalia Mesa-Bains: Storytelling and the Archaeology of Memory\u003cbr\u003e Maria Esther Fernandez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2\u003cbr\u003e Archaeology of the Immaterial: Absence and Presence in the Installations of Amalia Mesa-Bains\u003cbr\u003e Laura E. Perez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3\u003cbr\u003e Sixty Objects in My Art Life\u003cbr\u003e Amalia Mesa-Bains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Plates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4\u003cbr\u003e In Conversation: Amalia Mesa-Bains's Feminisms\u003cbr\u003e Lowery Stokes Sims\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5\u003cbr\u003e Unruly Erotic\u003cbr\u003e Jennifer A. Gonzales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Plates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6\u003cbr\u003e Flowers and Songs: Memory, Nature, and the Empowered Feminine in the Prints and Books of Amalia Mesa-Bains\u003cbr\u003e Adrianna Zavala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7\u003cbr\u003e The Latino Wunderkammer\u003cbr\u003e Tomas Ybarra-Frausto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Plates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Exhibition History\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Essay Bibliographies\u003cbr\u003e Works in the Exhibition\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402970669399,"sku":"9780520395718","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520395718.jpg?v=1730481997","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/amalia-mesabains-9780520395718","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}