Covered in time and history : the films of Ana Mendieta / curated by Lynn Lukkas and Howard Oransky ; texts by Laura Wertheim Joseph, Lynn Lukkas, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Howard Oransky, John Perreault, Michael Rush, and Rachel Weiss
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, organized by Lynn Lukkas and Howard Oransky for the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota.
Contents:
Foreword / Howard Oransky -- Eros, death, and life: the films of Ana Mendieta / Michael Rush -- Ana Mendieta: the politics of spirituality / John Perreault -- Difficult times: watching Mendieta's films / Rachel Weiss -- Forever young: five lessons from the creative life of Ana Mendieta / Lynn Lukkas -- Covered in time and history: the films of Ana Mendieta / Howard Oransky -- Uncovering Ana: the rebirth of Mendieta's filmworks / Raquel Cecilia Mendieta -- Unfinished processes: going back and reeling forward in Ana Mendieta's films / Laura Wertheim Joseph -- Filmography / Laura Wertheim Joseph
Summary:
"Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the US as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. During her too-brief career, she produced a distinctive body of work that includes drawings, installations, performances, photographs, and sculpture. Less well known is her remarkable and prolific production of experimental films. This richly illustrated catalogue presents a series of sequential color stills from each of twenty-one original Super 8 films that have been newly preserved and digitized in high definition, combined with related photographs, and reference still images from all of the artist's 100 films; together these illustrations sample the full range of the artist's film practice from 1973 to 1981. The book includes Mendieta's first published comprehensive filmography resulting from three years of collaborative research conducted by the Estate of Ana Mendieta and the University of Minnesota as well as original essays by John Perreault, Michael Rush, Rachel Weiss, Lynn Lukkas, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, and Laura Wertheim Joseph. The first book-length treatment of Mendieta's moving-image practice, Covered in Time and History aims to locate her films centrally within her larger oeuvre and at the forefront of the multidisciplinary shifts that characterized visual arts practice during the 1970s."--Provided by publisher.
Topic:
Experimental films--History and criticism Search this
Super-8 motion pictures--History and criticism Search this
