num_pages: 126
description: socio-political essayFrom back cover: Betty LaDuke brings together in "Compañeras" the personal stories and recent work of contemporary artists in the Caribbean, Central and South America. These urban and rural women, who work in such diverse situations as those in Haiti, Chile, and postrevolutionary Nicaragua, are dramatically reshaping crafts and fine arts in a period of rapid political and economic change.This representative survey of fourteen countries includes professional painters and sculptors of the big cities, self-taught painters, and women who work in a variety of crafts media. Here are Brazilian lace makers, Amazonian potters, Bolivian and Guatemalan weavers, birthing doll makers in Peru.Some artists are determined to retain high standards in traditional arts and take pride in an ancient heritage; some are inventing new media or making startling innovations in old ones.
language: English
title: Compañeras: Women, art, & social change in Latin America
titlecomplete: Compañeras: Women, art, & social change in Latin America
ratings_count: 4
publisher: City Lights Books