Yo soy mi propia musa
Subtitle: pintoras latinoamericanas de entreguerras (1919-1939)
By: Gloria Cortés Aliaga, coordinadora
Contributors: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Santiago de Chile
Language: spa
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Latin American Arts; Exhibitions; Hispanic American arts; Women artists
Other titles: Pintoras latinoamericanas de entreguerras (1919-1939)
Description: Catalogue of the exhibition comprising 40 paintings, drawings and objects belonging to private, museum and institutional collections from ten countries in the region can be visited at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile. "I am my own muse. Latin American painters from the interwar period (1919-1939)" is an international exhibition that shows a network of creative women concerned with revealing the identity and female role in the society of their time.This exhibition was born from a curatorial and management alliance between the National Museum of Fine Arts and Kugi Projects-Arttena (Spain) and is part of the Women Creators seal of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage. For the first time the work of important artists such as Frida Kahlo (Mexico), Leonora Carrington (United Kingdom, settled in Mexico) or Tarsila do Amaral (Brazil), is exhibited in Chile showing a community of women, who although they are Linked to the European vanguards and the influences of the war, they were agency of the subaltern from their triple condition of gender (women), class (Latin Americans) and social subjects (non-citizens). Includes works form artists from Latin America. Argentina: Raquel Forner (1902-1988) y Norah Borges (1901-1998). Brasil: Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1979), Georgina de Albuquerque (1885-1962), Lucy Citti Ferreira (1911-2008), Noemia Mourão (1912-1992) y Anita Malfatti (1889-1964). Colombia: Débora Arango (1907-2005). Cuba: Amelia Peláez (1896-1968). México: María Izquierdo (1902-1955), Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Rosa Rolanda (1895-1970), Lola Cueto (1897-1978), Aurora Reyes (1908-1985), Nahui Olin (1893-1978). Perú: Elena Izcue (1889-1970), Julia Manuela Codesido (1883-1979). Reino Unido: Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Uruguay: Petrona Viera (1895-1960), Amalia Nieto (1907-2003). España: Remedios Varo (1908-1963), Maruja Mallo (1902-1995). Chile: Laura Rodig (1901-1972), Elmina Moisán (1897-1938), Emma Formas (1886-1959), Judith Alpi (1893-1983), Sara Malvar (1898-1970), Henriette Petit (1894-1983), Herminia Arrate (1896-1941), Raquel González (1922-1938), Ximena Morla (1891-1987), Ana Cortés (1895-1998), Luz Arrieta (1910-?), Marta Villanueva (1900-1995), María Aranís (1903-1966), Dora Puelma (1885-1972), María Tupper (1893-1965), Inés Puyó (1906-1996) Graciela Aranís (1908-1996)
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held between 17 April and 30 June, 2019 at MNBA in Santiago de Chile.

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Presentación; title: Yo soy mi propia musa: pintoras latinoamericanas de entreguerras (1919-1939) / Julio Niebla; title: Leonora, Remedios, Maruja: el exilio en América; title: Modernidad femenina; title: El cuerpo como resistencia; title: El género y la piel.