{"product_id":"eros-ideologies-9780822369387","title":"Eros Ideologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura E. Pérez analyzes Latina art to explore a new notion of decolonial thought and love based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit that offers a means to creating a more democratic and just present and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Laura E. Pérez renews the precepts of 1950s Third World liberation and extends the contemporary politics of women-of-color freedom fighters into the future. She speaks with many voices—the learned scholar, the analyst, the teacher, the maker of new aesthetics, the poet, the dreamer, and the guide—and offers her readers a multitude of routes for crossing academic and subjective terrains to find new possibilities for thinking, doing, and being. An outstanding work of decolonial writing by one of the great Chicana feminist philosophers of our time, \u003ci\u003eEros Ideologies\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly the book I have needed to best teach my undergraduate and graduate students.” -- Chela Sandoval, author of * Methodology of the Oppressed *\u003cbr\u003e“Laura E. Pérez’s newest book is a tour de force that integrates the mind-body-spirit through a series of writings that weave together the theoretical and poetical within the context of decolonization. She explores the works of artists like Gloria Anzaldúa, Ester Hernández, and Consuelo Jiménez Underwood as she crosses disciplines to bring the embodied psyche to bear on questions of the erotic and the spiritual.” -- Amalia Mesa-Bains, Professor Emerita, California State University, Monterey Bay\u003cbr\u003e\"Pérez eloquently reflects on activism, art, philosophy, poetry, politics, and selfhood. She offers radical reappraisals of the art of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, Esther Hernández, and Liliana Wilson, among many artists whose histories have been obfuscated by Eurocentric ideas and whose praxes she creatively reexamines. This cross-disciplinary study powerfully recombines theoretical and literary sources that speak to academic practice, lived experience, and poetic meditation. Writing in multiple authorial voices, Pérez shatters the high\/low art dichotomy that has often segregated Latinx art history from mainstream US culture. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.\" -- L. Estevez * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers unfamiliar with Latina, especially Chicana, art and politics are treated to eye-opening beauty mixed with expressions of suffering and resistance. Readers already immersed in the culturally rich world of protest art foregrounding gender and eroticisim will find new ways into the multilayered visionaries featured here.\" -- Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer * Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Eros Ideologies\u003c\/i\u003e is a teacherly text: Pérez shows us not only how to look at, but also how to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e with, art of the Americas.… Certainly, the use of personal prose in scholarly publications is not unprecedented in the discourses of ethnic studies, anthropology, history, literature, art, and cultural studies; but Pérez's approach is tactical as readers enter her classroom—a space of 'heart and hearth'—where she interweaves decades of close study of theoretical and spiritual texts, lifelong contemplations of artwork, and the conversations she has maintained with the many artists who made them.\" -- Ella Maria Diaz * Latino Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEros Ideologies\u003c\/i\u003e can serve as an approachable and valuable introduction to very urgent concerns.\" -- Andrew William Lee * Religion and the Arts *\u003cbr\u003e\"It is Pérez’s mindful contributions of eros, agape, philia, \u003ci\u003eIn lak’ech\u003c\/i\u003e, love, and respect for art that mark this book as a starting point in discussion of works by people of color, mostly Latinx and women artists. . . . As beautiful as Pérez’s writings on the subjects can be, as rich with historical connections calling upon syncretism and community care, these analyses are primers for further work to be done.\" -- Helman Alejandro Sosa * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  xi\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xv\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xxi\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Social Body of Love: Crafting Decolonial Methodologies  1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Eros Ideologies and \u003ci\u003eMethodology of the Oppressed\u003c\/i\u003e  17\u003cbr\u003e 3. Long Nguyen: Flesh of the Inscrutable  24\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hidden Avant-Gardes: Contemporary U.S. Latina\/o Art  27\u003cbr\u003e 5. Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández's \u003ci\u003eLibertad\u003c\/i\u003e  34\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Ginas in the Atelier  40\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Poetry of Embodiment: Series and Variation in Linda Arreola's \u003ci\u003eVaguely Chicana\u003c\/i\u003e  52\u003cbr\u003e 8. Art and Museums  56\u003cbr\u003e 9. The@-Erotics in Alex Donis's \u003ci\u003eMy Cathedral \u003c\/i\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e 10. \u003ci\u003eCon o sin permiso\u003c\/i\u003e (With or without Permission): \u003ci\u003eChicana Badgirls: Las hociconas\u003c\/i\u003e  77\u003cbr\u003e 11. \u003ci\u003eMaestrapeace\u003c\/i\u003e: Picturing the Power of Women's Histories of Creativity  82\u003cbr\u003e 12. Decolonizing Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez  91\u003cbr\u003e 13. Undead Darwinism and the Fault Lines of Neocolonialism in Latina\/o Art Worlds  112\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Inviolate Erotic in the Paintings of Liliana Wilson  126\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Performance of Spirituality and Visionary Politics in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa  133\u003cbr\u003e 16. Daughters Shaking Earth  147\u003cbr\u003e 17 Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina\/o Los Angeles  155\u003cbr\u003e 18. On Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie's \u003ci\u003eWater Songs\u003c\/i\u003e  174\u003cbr\u003e 19. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's\u003ci\u003e Welcome to Flower-Landai\u003c\/i\u003e  179\u003cbr\u003e 20. \"Undocu Nation,\" Creativity, Integrity  192\u003cbr\u003e 21. Writing with Crooked Lines  201\u003cbr\u003e Notes  211\u003cbr\u003e References  245\u003cbr\u003e Index  263","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406105682263,"sku":"9780822369387","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369387.jpg?v=1730494547","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eros-ideologies-9780822369387","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}