Date of Award
Spring 5-2-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Harper Montgomery
Second Advisor
Cynthia Hahn
Academic Program Adviser
Maria Pelizzari
Abstract
This thesis explores the path-breaking art installations and attendant writing of Amalia Mesa-Bains, who fused the home altar traditions of Mexican and Chicana women with contemporary considerations of identity politics and hybridity, naming the form domesticana. It situates her practice within a trajectory of feminist art.
Recommended Citation
Hermo, Carmen del Valle, "Altar/Installations by Amalia Mesa-Bains in a Feminist Context" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/437