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The other Fridas: Women, art and feminism in 20th-century Latin America

Fri, May 24, 2:15 to 3:45pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Panel

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Latin America has produced a number of talented and innovative women artists. Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, for instance, is one of the most well-known artists in the Western world nowadays. However, unlike Kahlo, many Latin American women artists still remain obscure in their region and even in their native countries. Influential Latin American women in the fields of literature, visual arts, and music are much less present in anthologies and art history books, when compared to their male counterparts. In a region where machismo has been and still is so strong, they were often overshadowed by their male fellow artists and remained quite invisible even in their home countries. There is a notable discrepancy between male and female artists when it comes to their recognition in scholarly works, biographical accounts, as well as the media. The overall objective of this panel is to shed light in some Latin American women artists who challenged their generation’s and country’s status quo, transgressed gender stereotypes and/or significantly contributed to their field of work through their art. Our main purpose is to identify, recognize and better understand the contributions of these Latin American women artists.

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