| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The Art of Necessity / Luís Valdez -- Spinning-Making Thread -- The Hands of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: A Filmmaker's Reflections / Carol Sauvion -- Charged Objects: The Multivalent Fiber Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Christine Laffer -- Weaving-Hand Work -- History/Whose-Story? Postcoloniality and Contemporary Chicana Art / Constance Cortez -- A Tear in the Curtain: Hilos y Cultura in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Amalia Mesa-Bains -- Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Welcome to Flower-Landia / Laura E. Pérez -- Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Welcome to Flower-Landia / María Ester Fernández -- Between the Lines: Documenting Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fiber Pathways / Emily Zaiden -- Flags, the Sacred, and a Different America in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fiber Art / Clara Román-Odio -- Garments for the Goddess of the Américas: The American Dress Triptych / Ann Marie Leimer -- Space, Place, and Belonging in Borderlines: Counter-Mapping in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Karen Mary Davalos -- Decolonizing Aesthetics in Mexican and Xicana Fiber Art: The Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Georgina Santos / Cristina Serna -- Reading Our Mothers: Decolonization and Cultural Identity in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Rebozos for Our Mothers / Carmen Febles -- Weaving Water: Toward an Indigenous Method of Self and Community Care / Jenell Navarro -- Off the Loom-Into the World -- Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Artist, Educator, and Advocate / Robert Milnes -- Being Chicanx Studies: Lessons for Racial Justice from the Work and Life of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Marcos Pizarro -- Blue Río Tapestries / Verónica Reyes |
| Summary |
"Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, edited by art historians Laura E. Pérez and Ann Marie Leimer, focuses on Jiménez Underwood's weaving practice. The contributors explore themes of Chicana identity, nationalism, feminism, migration, and Indigenous philosophies in relation to Jiménez Underwood's art. The anthology is organized in three sections: "Spinning - Making Thread" provides introductory essays to Jiménez Underwood's work; "Weaving - Hand Work" provides art historical and visual cultural studies scholarship on the artist's work; and "Off the Loom - Into the World" examines Jiménez Underwood's role as a teacher"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2022) |
| Subject |
Jimenez Underwood, Consuelo.
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Wall hangings -- United States
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Weaving -- United States
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Hand weaving -- United States
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Women weavers -- United States.
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Textile design -- United States
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ART / Individual Artists / Essays.
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ART / Women Artists.
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Hand weaving.
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Textile design.
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Wall hangings.
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Weaving.
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Women weavers.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pérez, Laura Elisa, editor.
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Leimer, Ann, editor.
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| LC no. |
2021037913 |
| ISBN |
9781478022930 |
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1478022930 |
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