The gathering of essays, Pioneras y transgresoras: Mujeres en las Artes en Puerto Rico [Pioneers and Transgressors: Women in the Arts in Puerto Rico], edited by Yamila Azize Vargas was launched on March 24 by the Artwork League [Liga de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico]. Listed here are excerpts from “Visibilizando a las mujeres pioneras y transgresoras en el arte puertorriqueño” [Making visible the pioneering and transgressive women in Puerto Rican art] by Milton Rúa de Mauret (El Adoquín Instances). [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for all related links.]
Though the e-book focuses on 5 girls artists of the twentieth century—Luisa Géigel Brunet, Luisina Ordoñez Sabater, María Luisa Penne de Castillo, Cecilia Orta Allende and Ana Margarita Bassó—it additionally incorporates the Moriviví Collective as consultant of a brand new technology of girls artists, pioneers who break with conventional inventive buildings.
Just lately, we commemorated the worldwide day of working girls. On that day, we bear in mind the struggles and calls for of girls for equitable remedy. Sadly, for years, the contribution of girls in several sectors of society, equivalent to artwork, has been rendered invisible. That is exactly the sample that the e-book Pioneras y transgresoras: Mujeres en las Artes en Puerto Ricoseeks to interrupt. It explores the historical past of conventional artwork in Puerto Rico, highlighting the necessary contributions that pioneering girls have made to the completely different branches of Puerto Rican artwork in the course of the twentieth and 21st centuries.
In an interview with El Adoquín Instances, Dr. Yamila Azize Vargas—the e-book’s editor—defined how this e-book mission was born, rising after the celebration (partially interrupted by the pandemic) of the Pioneering and Transgressive Collection, which consisted of a sequence of lectures given by the authors of the essays printed on this e-book: Doreen Colón Camacho, Azize Vargas, María Elba Torres Muñoz, María Elena Perales and the Moriviví Collective, Raysa Raquel Rodríguez García, and Sharon Nichole González Colón. Artist Rafael Trelles can also be one of many collaborators of this e-book, with a commentary essay.
Translated by Ivette Romero. For authentic, full article (in Spanish), see https://www.eladoquintimes.com/2022/03/14/visibilizando-a-las-mujeres-pioneras-y-transgresoras-en-el-arte-puertorriqueno
Pioneras y transgresoras: Mujeres en las Artes en Puerto Rico
Yamila Azize Vargas (Editor)
Primedia eLaunch LLC, 2021
ISBN: 978-1684897995
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Launch:
March 24, 2022, 7pm
Iraida Rodríguez Negrón, curadora del Museo de Arte de Ponce
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