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Bio & Research Interests. Laura Elisa Pérez is professor in the Program of Chicanx Latinx Studies and the Department of Ethnic Studies, and since 2018-19, is Chair of the new interdisciplinary and transAmericas Latinx Research Center, at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a core faculty member of the doctoral program in Performance ...
Chicana Art . . . is an intelligent and highly creative study that has laid the groundwork for scholars from a variety of fields and for those art aficionados who wish to enter into a rich terrain.”. — Lynda Hoffman-Jeep, Woman's Art Journal. “A landmark text for understanding recurring concepts and themes of the spiritual, the political ...
Laura E. Pérez is Chair of the new interdisciplinary and transAmericas research hub, the Latinx Research Center, formerly the Center for Latino Policy Research. She is author of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities (Duke University Press, 2007) in which she theorized decolonial aesthetics and decolonial ...
Dec 23, 2009 · Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities is a thoroughly grounded study on the spiritual and feminist projects of post-1965 Chicana artwork. By focusing on issues of race, class, gender, colonial and imperialist histories, Laura Pérez skillfully illuminates the intersections of the spiritual and the political in over 40 artists across a variety of media including ...
- Clara Román-Odio
- 2009
Laura Elisa Pérez is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, and Chair of the Latinx Research Center, an interdisciplinary and transAmericas research hub at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a core faculty member of the doctoral program in Performance Studies and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Women’s ...
Aug 9, 2007 · Books. Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities. Laura E. Pérez. Duke University Press, Aug 9, 2007 - Art - 390 pages. In Alma Lopez’s digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons—the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards—embrace one another, symbolically ...
Chicana Art operates as a venue that makes the work of the featured artists available to a wide readership. Chicana Art stands out by placing works of art in conversation with each other outside the context of any one specific art show. Though she references many influential gallery shows, Pérez gracefully curates her own collection, which ...
