| Titre | El cuerpo de los retratos versus el « espíritu extendido en el cuerpo » de los autorretratos de Nahui Olin | |
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| Auteur | Dina Comisarenco Mirkin | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 7, 2012 Imaginaire et réalité dans les Amériques: mémoire, identité et politique sexuelle | |
| Résumé anglais |
Carmen Mondragón (1893-1978), popularly known as Nahui Olin, was an extraordinary Mexican artist who during the 1920s and 1930s produced very original paintings and poems. Even though Nahui is generally known as the beautiful muse who inspired some very iconic portraits to some of renowned Mexican artists of the Mexican Renaissance, the images that the female artist created of herself, a series of very provocative self-portraits in the nude, have not yet received the academic attention that they deserve. Through a complete study of the historical context in which both groups of works were created, the visual analysis of the paintings in which Nahui is the object or the subject of the work, and a critical study of Nahui's literary production, in this paper I demonstrate that the female artist's self-portraits, were in part created as a way to counter-act and to refute, the image of her as an erotic symbol that the masculine gaze had constructed, and that the traditional historiography of Mexican art history has perpetuated later on. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/3591 |
