Ana Mendieta: Traces
2013
Published by Hayward Publishing22 x 27 cm240 pagesPaperbackISBN 9781853323171
During her short career, Ana Mendieta created a body of work that was provocative and radically inventive. Using her own body, together with elemental materials – blood, fire, earth and water – she created visceral tableaux and ephemeral “earth-body” sculptures exploring life, death, rebirth and spiritual transformation
Encompassing a wealth of drawings, photography and film, Ana Mendieta: Traces provides a comprehensive and illuminating overview of this highly influential artist’s work. Essays by art historians Julia Bryan-Wilson and Adrian Heathfield, as well as Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator at Hayward Gallery, provide an array of new approaches to Mendieta’s practice. This publication also includes a wide-ranging and richly illustrated anthology of never-before-seen material, including Mendieta’s own notebooks, exhibition plans and correspondence, the result of unparalleled access to the Ana Mendieta Archive.