The Body is Present Even if in Disguise: Tracing the Trace in the Artwork of Nancy Spero and Ana Mendieta
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Walker, Joanna S.
Date published
2009
Abstract
In the early 1990s Nancy Spero (born 1926) composed a series of homages to the Cuban artist, Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). These works recreated a performance by Mendieta which Spero had witnessed in 1982. Using this encounter as a lens, the article examines how these two artists share a feminist strategy of self-representation.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
11
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright