Chicana Art The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities

"A landmark text for understanding recurring concepts and themes of the spiritual, the political, and the aesthetic in Chicana art theories and practices."--Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, independent scholar, New York City "For Laura E. Perez, 'spirit' is a twenty-first-century method of analysis. This book transforms cultural productions into portals through which academic disciplines are linked. This daring objective is achieved through Chicana and U.S. third-world feminist technologies. The work of "Chicana Art" makes spirit visible."--Chela Sandoval, author of "Methodology of the Oppressed" "Laura E. Perez illuminates the connections between the heterogeneous forms and themes cultivated by Chicana artists, filmmakers, and writers--connections that have been floating in the air for some time but never brought together in a concrete way until now."--Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, author of "The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherrie Moraga" "In light of the very real difficulties of engaging the 'spiritual' within the largely secular Enlightenment discourses in the human sciences, Laura E. Perez's work on the realms of the spiritual and the political in art alters the frame of reference, of what can be seen and known."-- Rosa Linda Fregoso, author of "meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands"Pérez, Laura E. is the author of 'Chicana Art The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities', published 2007 under ISBN 9780822338680 and ISBN 0822338688.