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Contemporary Art

City University of New York (CUNY)

Theses and Dissertations

2019

Chicana

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Altar/Installations By Amalia Mesa-Bains In A Feminist Context, Carmen Del Valle Hermo May 2019

Altar/Installations By Amalia Mesa-Bains In A Feminist Context, Carmen Del Valle Hermo

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the path-breaking art installations and attendant writing of Amalia Mesa-Bains, who fused the home altar traditions of Mexican and Chicana women with contemporary considerations of identity politics and hybridity, naming the form domesticana. It situates her practice within a trajectory of feminist art.

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