Research Catalog

Title

Eros ideologies : writings on art, spirituality, and the decolonial / Laura E. Pérez.

Author

Pérez, Laura Elisa

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 280 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of the interdependence of all life-forms, she writes of the decolonial as an ongoing project rooted in love as an ideology to frame respectful coexistence of social and cultural diversity. In readings of art that includes self-portraits by Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez, the drawings and paintings of Chilean American artist Liliana Wilson, and Favianna Rodriguez's screen-printed images, Pérez identifies art as one of the most valuable laboratories for creating, imagining, and experiencing new forms of decolonial thought. Such art expresses what Pérez calls eros ideologies: understandings of social and natural reality that foreground the centrality of respect and care of self and others as the basis for a more democratic and responsible present and future. Employing a range of writing styles and voices--from the poetic to the scholarly--Pérez shows how art can point to more just and loving ways of being.

Subjects

• Spirituality
• Love
• Feminism
• Decolonization
• Art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Social body of love: crafting decolonial methodologies -- Eros ideologies and methodology of the oppressed -- Long Nguyen: flesh of the inscrutable -- Hidden avant-gardes: contemporary U.S. Latina/o art -- Freedom and gender in Ester Hernández's Libertad -- 'Ginas in the atelier -- Poetry of embodiment: series and variation in Linda Arreola's Vaguely Chicana -- Art and museums -- The@-erotics in Alex Donis's My Cathedral -- Con o sin permiso (with or without permission): Chicana badgirls: Las Hociconas -- Maestrapeace: picturing the power of women's histories of creativity -- Decolonizing self-portraits of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez -- Undead Darwinism and the fault lines of neocolonialism in Latina/o art worlds -- The inviolate erotic in the paintings of Liliana Wilson -- The performance of spirituality and visionary politics in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa -- Daughters shaking earth -- Fashioning decolonial optics: Days of the Dead walking altars and Calavera fashion shows in Latina/o Los Angeles -- On Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie's Water songs -- Prayers for the planet: reweaving the natural and the social: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Welcome to Flower-landia -- "UndocuNation," creativity, integrity -- Writing with crooked lines.

ISBN

• 9780822369219
• 0822369214
• 9780822369387
• 0822369389
• 9780822372370 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018008238
• 40029499009

OCLC

• on1025374045
• 1025374045
• SCSB-9534348

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library