Performing Craft in Mexico: Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff, Ronda Brulotte, Natasha Bonilla Eckholm, Amalia Ramirez Garayzar, Eva Maria Garrido Izaguirre, Anne W. Johnson, Eugenio Mercado Lopez, Lorena Ojeda-Davila, Iris Calderon Tellez, Janet B Esser, Iris Calderón Téllez, Eva María Garrido Izaguirre, Eugenio Mercado López, Lorena Ojeda-Dávila, and Claudia Rocha Valverde

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This book examines how Mexican artisans and artistic actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft. The contributors build from historical and ethnographic archives and direct engagement with makers to reassemble an expanded vision of artisanal production in Mexico and the complicated classifications that surround Mexican popular art-making—from the American “craft” to the Spanish “artesanía.” This book also homages Dr. Janet Brody Esser’s research on the Blackmen masquerades of Michoacán, exploring African culture in Mexico. The contributors provide wide-ranging insight into the colonial influences on Mexican popular art and its translation as well as the agency of creators and actors.

  • ISBN10 1793639973
  • ISBN13 9781793639974
  • Publish Date 12 August 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lexington Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 330
  • Language English