Ana Mendieta
1948–1985
© The estate of Ana Mendieta, courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York
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Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. Born in Havana, Mendieta arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1961 (two years after Marxist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro overthrew the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista).
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Tate Papers
The Body is Present Even if in Disguise: Tracing the Trace in the Artwork of Nancy Spero and Ana Mendieta
In the early 1990s Nancy Spero (born 1926) composed a series of homages to the Cuban artist, Ana Mendieta (1948 ...
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Tate Papers no.11: Spring 2009
Tate Papers no.11 Spring 2009, Tate's flagship academic research publication
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