Performing Craft in Mexico by Avis Feder-Nadoff, Michele;

Rövid leírás:

This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.

Hosszú leírás:

Performing Craft in Mexico examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors perform as translators of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft. The contributors build from historical and ethnographic archives and direct engagement with makers to reassemble an expanded vision of artisanal production and the complicated classifications that surround Mexican popular art-making?from the Anglo term ?craft? to the Spanish term ?artesanía.? This book also homages Dr. Janet Brody Esser?s research on the Blackmen masquerades of Michoacán, exploring African history and presence in Mexico. The contributors provide wide-ranging insight into the agency, history, and contemporary world of Mexican makers and other entangled actors in the field of craft.

Performing Craft in Mexico pays homage to the groundbreaking scholarship of Janet Brody Esser (1930?2019), an art historian who taught at San Diego State University and a pioneer in the study of what is loosely termed ?craft," ?folk art,? ?ethnic art," and, in Spanish, artesanía. Attesting to Esser's scholarly legacy, the selections from Esser?s dissertation and the essays offer a comprehensible introduction to key developments in the art-historical and anthropological engagement with an art that is other in terms of production, producer, social resonance, and performative, embodied experience. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals/practitioners.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Acknowledging: The Widening Circles

Prolonging: Following Folds beyond Boundaries

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

An Appreciation of Dr. Janet B. Esser: From Brooklyn to Michoacán

Natasha Bonilla Eckholm

Prefacing Things: A Pondering

Michele AvisFeder-Nadoff

Chapter 1: Introducing Things: Between the Lines

Michele AvisFeder-Nadoff

PART ONE: TRANSLATING INSIDES AND OUTSIDES, MATERIALS AND GESTURES, NOMADIC AESTHETICS AND COMMUNITY

Pondering Two

Eugenio Mercado López

Chapter 2: Artisans and Crafts in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Eugenio Mercado López

Pondering Three

Amalia Ramírez Garayzar

Chapter 3: The Rebozo: The Stereotype of the Popular Mexican Woman in Nineteenth-Century Art and Onward

Amalia Ramírez Garayzar

Pondering Four

Anne W.Johnson

Chapter 4: Performative Materiality, Masks, and Masking in Teloloapan, Guerrero

Anne W.Johnson

Pondering Five

Eva Maria Garrido Izaguirre

Chapter 5: Indigenous Aesthetics and Glocalization: Recursive Agencies and Reflexivity

Eva María Garrido Izaguirre

Pondering Six

Lorena Ojeda Dávila and Iris Calderón Téllez

Chapter 6: Identity, Female Empowerment, and Resistance through Textile Crafts in the P?urhépecha Region of Mexico

Lorena Ojeda Dávila and Iris Calderón Téllez

Pondering Seven

Claudia Rocha Valverde

Chapter 7: The Triqui Huipil as a Representation of Territory: Women Immigrants between Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí

Claudia RochaValverde

PART TWO: FORTLEBEN: CALLING FORTH, LIVING FORTH

Chapter 8: Pondering Fortleben: An Interview with Janet B. Esser

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

Chapter 9: Selected Excerpts: Winter Ceremonial Masks of the Tarascan

Sierra, Michoacán, México

Dr. Janet B. Esser

Introduction

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

Chapter 10: Afterword

Ronda L. Brulotte

Chapter 11: Masks in Performance: Selected Fieldwork Photographs

Dr. Janet B. Esser

Biographical Synthesis

Dr. Janet B. Esser

Janet B. Esser Selected Bibliography