Tina Modotti : image, texture, photography / Andrea Noble
By: Noble, Andrea [author.]
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BookPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2000Description: xxv, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0826322549 .Other title: Image, texture, photography.Subject(s): Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation | Photographic criticism | Photography, Artistic | Feminist criticismDDC classification: 770.92 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Italian American photographer Tina Modotti (1896--1942) has become the subject of renewed popular and critical attention with a spate of recent biographies, academic articles, and films. Because Modotti was an intensely engaged political figure whose activism took her to Mexico, the former Soviet Union, and Spain, her biographers have focused primarily on her politics and love life, especially her relationships with Edward Weston, Xavier Guerrero, and Julio Antonio Mella. Now Andrea Noble focuses on Modotti's photographic output. Her corpus of over 300 images, especially those of post-revolutionary Mexico in the 1920s, is a significant contribution to twentieth-century photography. Drawing on feminist theories of visual culture, Noble presents a close reading of Modotti's work and how it fits into its cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. She also explores how Modotti was 'repackaged' by feminists in the 1980s and how she was commodified as an 'exotic Mexican body' to promote a collection of women's fashion. This book offers a new perspective on the work and life of an enduringly fascinating figure.
Bibliography: (pages 155-164) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-154).
Opening Doors: Feminism's beyond -- Commodity Feminism and the reading of Roses -- Photography and the politics of signature -- Aesthetics and the body politic: Building Contexts -- Beside the abject body.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. viii)
- Acknowledgments (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. x)
- Chapter 1 Opening Doors: Feminism's Beyond (p. 1)
- Chapter 2 Commodity Feminism and the Reading of Roses (p. 28)
- Chapter 3 Photography and the Politics of Signature (p. 59)
- Chapter 4 Aesthetics and the Body Politic: Building Contexts (p. 87)
- Chapter 5 Beside the Abject Body (p. 108)
- Notes (p. 140)
- Bibliography (p. 155)
- Index (p. 165)