OUR LADY OF CONTROVERSY : ALMA LOPEZ'S "IRREVERENT APPARITION"

Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958- (editor.). L�opez, Alma 1966- (editor.).

Summary: Months before Alma L�opez's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats ensued, but the provocative image of la Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad only in roses, and exalted by a bare-breasted butterfly angel) remained on exhibition. Highlighting many of the pivotal questions that have haunted the art world since the NEA debacle of 1988, the contributors to Our Lady of Controversy present diverse perspectives, ranging from definitions of art to the artist's intention, feminism, queer theory, colonialism, and Chicano nationalism. Contributors include the exhibition curator, Tey Marianna Nunn; award-winning novelist and Chicana historian Emma P�erez; and Deena Gonz�alez (recognized as one of the fifty most important living women historians in America).

Record details

ISBN: 9780292726420
ISBN: 9780292719927
ISBN: 0292726422
ISBN: 0292719922
ISBN: 9780292734869
ISBN: 0292734867
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:february.22 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Images -- Our Lady of Controversy -- The Artist of Our Lady (April 2, 2001) -- It's Not about the Art in the Folk, It's about the Folks in the Art -- The War of the Roses -- Making Privates Public -- Art Comes for the Archbishop -- Queering the Sacred -- The Decolonial Virgin in a Colonial Site -- It's Not about the Virgins in My Life, It's about the Life in My Virgins -- Do U Think I'm a Nasty Girl? -- Devil in a Rose Bikini -- It's Not about the Santa in My Fe, but the Santa Fe in My Santa -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.