By Alicia Gaspar de Alba,Alma López

ISBN-10: 0292719922

ISBN-13: 9780292719927

ISBN-10: 0292726422

ISBN-13: 9780292726420

Months prior to Alma López's electronic university Our Lady was once proven on the Museum of overseas folks paintings in 2001, the museum started receiving indignant cell calls from neighborhood activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the picture now not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and demise threats ensued, however the provocative snapshot of los angeles Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad merely in roses, and exalted by means of a bare-breasted butterfly angel) remained on exhibition.

Highlighting some of the pivotal questions that experience haunted the paintings global because the NEA debacle of 1988, the individuals to Our woman of Controversy present different views, starting from definitions of artwork to the artist's purpose, feminism, queer thought, colonialism, and Chicano nationalism. participants comprise the exhibition curator, Tey Marianna Nunn; award-winning novelist and Chicana historian Emma Pérez; and Deena González (recognized as one of many fifty most crucial dwelling ladies historians in America).

Accompanied by way of an advantage DVD of Alma López's I Love Lupe video that appears on the Chicana inventive culture of reimagining los angeles Virgen de Guadalupe, that includes a old dialog among Yolanda López, Ester Hernández, and Alma López, Our woman of Controversy provides to ignite vital new dialogues.

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