Talk:Ana Mendieta

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Mendieta means more.
''Much of Mendieta's work had a feminist political message. She made an abrupt change to performance art in 1972 and most of her interventions, performance pieces and cine films where made between 1972 and 1978. A common theme in her performance art was violence against the female body. She often went for the shock factor in representing sexual abuse and many of her performances involved significant quantities of animal blood.''

This is a bit reductionist. Some of her early work responded to a series of violent rapes that had been reported in U.S. media and these performances involved using her body to represent victims of such crimes and inviting unknowing friends to crime scenes she would stage in the woods or in apartments, her own and abondoned. Often, though, her use of blood and even violence was not essentially feminist or political, but engaged with Afro-Cuban Santería practices and her memories of growing up with Santeria caretakers and housekeepers in her home in Cuba. Furthermore, as her career progressed, she used a huge variety of materials and discourses to produce different works that were not limited by an intent to shock, nor were they performed in service to a feminist polemic. Nor was there a very "abrupt" transition. I wanted to open up some new ways of reading her work here before contributing to the entry. There is a very thorough catalog about her life, history and work edited by Olga Viso called Ana Mendieta: Earth Body and a few academic treatments that open up her work with new information gleaned from her papers and interviews (though some stuff out there is pretty bad). Any thoughts?

Does anyone else find this entry on Ana Mendieta very poorly written & with what I believe Wikipedia calls an inappropriate 'tone,' particularly the phrase: "She often went for the shock factor in representing sexual abuse" ? It seems not only too colloquial, but also, as mentioned by the author above, reductionist. Dionysian kat (talk) 22:32, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

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The article has her parents listed as her children. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4040:79AE:C000:6445:D74:8D8A:47EA (talk) 19:40, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

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Hi. Just to point out that you last edit is  exactly the same as my edit that was reverted by XLinkBot. All I did was add the missing, but this exposes the dazeddigital link to XLinkBot. As per the edit summary by XLinkBot "www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/46290/1/this-new-exhibition-reframes-the-legacy-of-artist-ana-mendieta [\bdazeddigital\.com\b]". So I removed the link, as XLinkBot didn't it just reverted the cite error back into the article. The other part of my edits was just tidying someone else's additions to the article. I'll leave this for the moment, but I can see no good reason for you to once again revert a banned link back into the article. Please let me know if I've missed something? Thanks 89.241.33.89 (talk) 00:55, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

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