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Author:   Alicia Gaspar de Alba ,  Alma Lopez
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.709kg
ISBN:  

9780292719927

ISBN 10:   0292719922
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   01 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780292726420
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Our Lady of Controversy: A Subject That Needs No Introduction Alicia Gaspar de Alba 1. The Artist of Our Lady (April 2, 2001) Alma Lopez 2. It's Not about the Art in the Folk, It's about the Folks in the Art: A Curator's Tale Tey Marianna Nunn 3. The War of the Roses: Guadalupe, Alma Lopez, and Santa Fe Kathleen FitzCallaghan Jones 4. Making Privates Public: It's Not about La Virgen of the Conquest, but about the Conquest of La Virgen Deena J. Gonzalez 5. Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez Luz Calvo 6. Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Consciousness in Alma Lopez's Visual Art Clara Roman-Odio 7. The Decolonial Virgin in a Colonial Site: It's Not about the Gender in My Nation, It's about the Nation in My Gender Emma Perez 8. It's Not about the Virgins in My Life, It's about the Life in My Virgins Cristina Serna 9. Do U Think I'm a Nasty Girl? Catriona Rueda Esquibel 10. Devil in a Rose Bikini: The Second Coming of Our Lady in Santa Fe Alicia Gaspar de Alba 11. It's Not about the Santa in My Fe, but about the Santa Fe in My Santa Alma Lopez Appendix: Selected Viewer Comments About the Contributors Index

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An exceptionally important and powerful collection of essays, opening new interpretive paths and new tools for the activist-scholar-student. This is the most serious consideration of the oeuvre of Alma Lopez published to date. - oCharlene Villasenor Black, Associate Professor of Art History, UCLA

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ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA, a native of the El Paso/Juarez border, is Professor and Chair of the Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA. She has published eight other books, including Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition. ALMA LOPEZ is an artist, activist, and visual storyteller originally from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.

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