Ana Mendieta. A retrospective

New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1987. Softcover, 25.5 x 24.5 cm, 85 pp. with 34 b/w and 12 colour images. Exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective of Mendieta’s work held from November 20, 1987 to January 4, 1988. Preface by Marcia Tucker, essays by Petra Barreras del Rio and John Perrault. Text in English. Marginal spotting on front cover, generally in very good condition. Scarce early publication.

Cuban- American artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) developed a personal vocabulary in which her own body became the medium for performances; earth art, body art, and photo-based art. The retrospective at the New Museum included 'documentary colour photographs of the Silueta series, in which her body was traced in the landscape; b/w photographic blowups of rock carvings located in Cuba; early drawings on leaves; floor sculptures made from sand and earth; tree trunk sculpture with the female image carved and burnt into the surface; and videotape documentation of various performance works'. Cited from The New Museum Annual Report, 1988.