(MENDIETA, Ana).

Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective (20 November 1987-24 January 1988).

Illus. throughout. 85 pp. Square 4to, pictorial softcover, title on spine. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1987.

A landmark exhibition catalogue that is now scarce. Organized by Mendieta’s former teacher, John Perreault, and Petra Barreras del Rio, the exhibition was staged at the New Museum in New York. This catalogue includes texts by the two curators, and an exhibition history and bibliography, both compiled by Julie Ewington. Dozens of Mendieta’s sculptural and photographic works are documented for the first time within. In fine condition.

❧ Donald Kuspit wrote for Artforum’s February 1988 issue: “Out of the cliché of woman’s earthiness Mendieta has made an art that is simultaneously terrestrial and cosmic, abstract and primitive, personal and universal. It is perhaps overly narcissistic and reductive, hitting the one note of the bodily self over and over again, and abruptly simple. It is in just such unrelenting directness, though that its power finally lies, a power that articulates the issue of woman’s relation to her mother and that connects with forces greater than either man or woman. This beautifully installed retrospective was a true homage to Mendieta’s memory.”

Michael Brenson in the New York Times on 27 November 1987: “Her work is both insistent and self-effacing, tender and violent…Her shadowy forms are anonymous and indelible. The path Ms. Mendieta was following is lined with obstacles and contradictions. It is also important. It is extremely unfortunate she could not follow it to the end.”.

Price: $1,250.00

Item ID: 11559