OUR LADY OF CONTROVERSY : ALMA LOPEZ'S "IRREVERENT APPARITION"

OUR LADY OF CONTROVERSY : ALMA LOPEZ'S "IRREVERENT APPARITION" /

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Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threa...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: López, Alma, 1966- (Editor), Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011
Edition:First edition.
Series:Chicana matters series.
Subjects:
López, Alma, > 1966- > Criticism and interpretation.
López, Alma, > 1966- > Our Lady.
Mexican American art > Public opinion.
Guadalupe, Our Lady of > Art.
CD-ROMs.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Images
  • Our Lady of Controversy
  • The Artist of Our Lady (April 2, 2001)
  • It's Not about the Art in the Folk, It's about the Folks in the Art
  • The War of the Roses
  • Making Privates Public
  • Art Comes for the Archbishop
  • Queering the Sacred
  • The Decolonial Virgin in a Colonial Site
  • It's Not about the Virgins in My Life, It's about the Life in My Virgins
  • Do U Think I'm a Nasty Girl?
  • Devil in a Rose Bikini
  • It's Not about the Santa in My Fe, but the Santa Fe in My Santa
  • Appendix
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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