Research Catalog

Title

Our Lady of Controversy : Alma López's "irreverent apparition" / edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958-
• López, Alma, 1966-

Description

xii, 322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm. +

Summary

"Months before Alma López'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."--Cover.

Series Statement

Chicana Matters Series

Uniform Title

Chicana matters series.

Alternative Title

I love Lupe.

Subjects

• Guadalupe, Our Lady of > Art
• López, Alma, 1966- > Our Lady
• López, Alma, 1966- > Criticism and interpretation
• Mexican American art > Public opinion

Note

• "Accompanied by a bonus DVD of Alma López's I love Lupe video that looks at the Chicana artistic tradition of reimagining la Virgen de Guadalupe, featureing a historic conversation between Yolanda López, Ester Hernández, and Alma López ..."--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Contents

Our Lady of Controversy : a subject that needs no introduction / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- The artist of Our Lady (April 2, 2001) / Alma López -- It's not about the art in the folk, it's about the folks in the art : a curator's tale / Tey Marianna Nunn -- The war of the roses : Guadalupe, Alma López, and Santa Fe / Kathleen Fitzcallaghan Jones -- Making privates public : it's not about La Virgen of the Conquest, but about the conquest of La Virgen / Deena J. González -- Art comes for the archbishop : the semiotics of contemporary Chicana feminism and the work of Alma López / Luz Calvo -- Queering the sacred : love as oppositional consciousness in Alma López's visual art / Clara Román-Odio -- 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 Pérez -- It's not about the virgins in my life, it's about the life in my virgins / Cristina Serna -- Do u think I'm a nasty girl? / Catrióna Rueda Esquibel -- Devil in a rose bikini : the second coming of Our Lady in Santa Fe / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- It's not about the Santa Fe in my Fe, but the Santa Fe in my Santa / Alma López.

Call Number

JQE 12-111

ISBN

• 9780292719927 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0292719922 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780292726420 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0292726422 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010047372

OCLC

679936714

Title

Our Lady of Controversy : Alma López's "irreverent apparition" / edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López.

Imprint

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011, ©2011.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Chicana Matters Series

Chicana matters series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details

DVD.

Added Author

Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958- editor.

López, Alma, 1966- editor.

Added Title

I love Lupe.

Research Call Number

JQE 12-111 [Text]

*UAD-3198 [DVD]