Adriana Zavala
Biographic Data
| ID | 685326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adriana Zavala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adriana |
| FAMILY NAME | Zavala |
| SIGNATURE | ZAVALA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4281-3164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Juan Sánchez’s Counter-Archive
This essay examines the video work UNKNOWN BORICUA STREAMING: A Nuyorican State of Mind (2011) by the Brooklyn-born Nuyorican artist Juan Sánchez. The video is a digital collage that incorporates photographs of Puerto Rican migrants reposited in the archive of the Migration Division at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños), along with materials mined from Sánchez’s own archive. The images are s…
Blackness Distilled, Sugar and Rum
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959, Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban artist with Yoruba (Nigerian), Chinese, and Spanish roots. She is also a black US-based artist. Known for performative and installation-based work as well as photography, paintings, and videos in which her body functions as resource, medium, and site, she has recently turned to more metaphorical representations of the body. History and memory, as well as the ritual (Lucumí or Santer…
Portrait of a Young Painter
In 1956 the iconoclastic Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas published his article “La cortina de nopal” (“The Cactus Curtain”), famously satirizing all forms of postrevolutionary official dogmatism including social realist painting. Cuevas’s parable follows Juan, an artist curious about international art-world currents who buckles under art-world conformism to become an ardent purveyor of the clichés—thematic and stylistic—of Mexican-school painting…
María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo
In a beautifully produced book, Nancy Deffebach considers Frida Kahlo's art alongside that of her contemporary María Izquierdo, examining how each used pictorial expression to resist the gendered discourses of Mexican art and nationalism from the 1930s to the 1950s. Acknowledging the important differences between the two artists, Deffebach offers a nuanced interpretation of select paintings focused on themes of womanhood and heroism, landscape an…
Latin@ Art at the Intersection
Research Article| March 01 2015 Latin@ Art at the Intersection Adriana Zavala Adriana Zavala Adriana Zavala is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Tufts University. Her teaching fields include modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. She also directs Tufts's Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, as well as the university's Latin@ Studies Program. Search for other works by this autho…
Mexico and Modern Printmaking
In 1924, as the Mexican government was clamping down on politically militant muralists, David Alfaro Siqueiros declared that if their mural commissions were canceled, artists would “exchange the walls of public buildings for the pages of [El Machete],” an illustrated newspaper launched by the Syndicate of Workers, Painters, and Writers. This beautifully illustrated catalog for an exhibition co-organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and…
Mexico City in Juan O'Gorman's Imagination
This essay offers a new interpretation of Juan O'Gorman's Paisaje de la Ciudad de México (1949), which won first prize in a contest sponsored by the Mexico City newspaper Excelsior that year. Since then, the painting has been hailed as a positive representation of Mexico City that seems to support the policies of the government of Miguel Alemán. Undertaking a careful icono-graphic analysis of the painting, and situating it in relation to the arti…
The Effects of the Nation
This collection addresses the idea of the Mexican nation as articulated in twentieth-century visual and literary production. Most of its essays, however, examine art and literary works produced at the borders of the nation and its aesthetic canons. While each essay can be read by itself, the collection achieves cohesion through the authors’ shared concern with disrupting the imagined integrity of “Mexico.”In his introductory essay, Carl Good obse…
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The Effects of the Nation
This collection addresses the idea of the Mexican nation as articulated in twentieth-century visual and literary production. Most of its essays, however, examine art and literary works produced at the borders of the nation and its aesthetic canons. While each essay can be read by itself, the collection achieves cohesion through the authors’ shared concern with disrupting the imagined integrity of “Mexico.”In his introductory essay, Carl Good obse…
Mexico City in Juan O'Gorman's Imagination
This essay offers a new interpretation of Juan O'Gorman's Paisaje de la Ciudad de México (1949), which won first prize in a contest sponsored by the Mexico City newspaper Excelsior that year. Since then, the painting has been hailed as a positive representation of Mexico City that seems to support the policies of the government of Miguel Alemán. Undertaking a careful icono-graphic analysis of the painting, and situating it in relation to the arti…
Mexico and Modern Printmaking
In 1924, as the Mexican government was clamping down on politically militant muralists, David Alfaro Siqueiros declared that if their mural commissions were canceled, artists would “exchange the walls of public buildings for the pages of [El Machete],” an illustrated newspaper launched by the Syndicate of Workers, Painters, and Writers. This beautifully illustrated catalog for an exhibition co-organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and…
Latin@ Art at the Intersection
Research Article| March 01 2015 Latin@ Art at the Intersection Adriana Zavala Adriana Zavala Adriana Zavala is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Tufts University. Her teaching fields include modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. She also directs Tufts's Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, as well as the university's Latin@ Studies Program. Search for other works by this autho…
María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo
In a beautifully produced book, Nancy Deffebach considers Frida Kahlo's art alongside that of her contemporary María Izquierdo, examining how each used pictorial expression to resist the gendered discourses of Mexican art and nationalism from the 1930s to the 1950s. Acknowledging the important differences between the two artists, Deffebach offers a nuanced interpretation of select paintings focused on themes of womanhood and heroism, landscape an…
Portrait of a Young Painter
In 1956 the iconoclastic Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas published his article “La cortina de nopal” (“The Cactus Curtain”), famously satirizing all forms of postrevolutionary official dogmatism including social realist painting. Cuevas’s parable follows Juan, an artist curious about international art-world currents who buckles under art-world conformism to become an ardent purveyor of the clichés—thematic and stylistic—of Mexican-school painting…
Blackness Distilled, Sugar and Rum
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959, Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban artist with Yoruba (Nigerian), Chinese, and Spanish roots. She is also a black US-based artist. Known for performative and installation-based work as well as photography, paintings, and videos in which her body functions as resource, medium, and site, she has recently turned to more metaphorical representations of the body. History and memory, as well as the ritual (Lucumí or Santer…
Juan Sánchez’s Counter-Archive
This essay examines the video work UNKNOWN BORICUA STREAMING: A Nuyorican State of Mind (2011) by the Brooklyn-born Nuyorican artist Juan Sánchez. The video is a digital collage that incorporates photographs of Puerto Rican migrants reposited in the archive of the Migration Division at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños), along with materials mined from Sánchez’s own archive. The images are s…
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