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Title:
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Caracoles: The Slow and Steady Resistance in the Art of Zapatista Women
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Creator:
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Brennan, Isabel Christine Hitt
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Subject:
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Thesis (B.F.A.) -- Art History
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Subject:
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Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Art History
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Abstract:
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"In Chiapas, Mexico, the Indigenous women of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) communities come together to form female-only art collectives as a means of creating and dispersing discursive material. The women of these collectives engage in new and old artistic practices to create political art that disrupts nationalistic ideologies of the Mexican state while also ensuring economic income for themselves and their families. Additionally, the collective serves as a point of contact that enables women to converse intellectually between themselves as they engage in topical conversations over hours of artistic sharing. These conversations, ranging from gossip to advice to politics, enable women to speak on gendered issues whilst developing deep communal ties. The art and its creators often engage Indigenous feminism and evince agency in material and subject decisions. To demonstrate this agency, this thesis critically explores a small collection of Zapatista women's textiles whose analysis will testify to female collective's contributions to the fight for Indigenous autonomy. Political textile art that disperses the EZLN's ideologies on a global scale all whilst building interpersonal kinship ties." -- Abstract
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Publisher:
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Savannah, Georgia: Savannah College of Art and Design
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Date:
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2022-05
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Format:
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1 online resource: 1 PDF (Thesis, 62 pages, color illustrations)
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