Lecture 2 “Collapsing Time with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”
This lecture brings contemporary art by Chicana (Mexican American) women artists into dialogue with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, collapsing and questioning art history’s chronological and geographical frameworks and borders. I examine portrayals of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), famed writer, intellectual, and proto-feminist nun in colonial Mexico. How can recent visual imaginings by Chicana feminist artists illuminate earlier, historical portrayals of Mexico’s “Tenth Muse”? Can the tools of Chicanx studies force a reconceptualization of art history?
Date:
9 May 2022, 17:00
Venue:
Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details:
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College
Speaker:
Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA and Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of History of Art
Organiser:
Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA and Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
admin@hoa.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Terra Lectures in American Art 2022: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Oliver Hedges
