The connotations of the female body in the art of Ana Mendieta - Rodriguez Ramos

This paper aims to examine the different connotations of the female body that Ana Mendieta represented in her works. With this objective, a state of the question is carried out in which the meanings of the female body that different authors have investigated in the figure of the artist are reviewed. In this sense, the perceptions of the female body that Mendieta represented and that these researchers have analyzed are presented and developed in the aforementioned state of the question divided into 4 blocks of recurring themes in her artistic proposals that show her perspectives on the female corporeality. Relevant data on Mendieta's biography are also included, as well as the historical and artistic context in which she developed her life and artistic career. Finally, testimonies that the artist expressed during her lifetime are added to this work. In addition, we have been advised by people linked to the MUSAC's exhibition project Ana Mendieta in Search of the Origin.

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