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This 5 page paper discusses the artist Ana Mendieta, her works and her technique. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Mendieta was born in Cuba in 1948 and died in New York city in 1985, falling from her apartment window. Her husband, sculptor Carl Andre, stood trial for murder
but was acquitted and her death remains a mystery (Malyon, 2005). Mendieta was a political refugee who was sent to the U.S. from Cuba without her parents; she spent years
in foster homes (Wright, 2004). Her feelings of displacement and non-belonging became essential to her artistic vision (Wright, 2004). She remained in Iowa through her graduate school days
and "began studying art with Hans Breder, who became her lover and helper" (Wright, 2004). Breder "was a proponent of happening-type, performance art and ... [W]hen Mendieta mixed in
her vision and heritage, the results were profound" (Wright, 2004). The Works Mendietas works are powerful, disturbing and strange. She often used her own body either as
the canvas or the "paintbrush," as she did in "Body Tracks," which was a performance (Wright, 2004). The film shows her "using her tempera and blood-covered forearms and hands
to wipe down a wall almost to the floor" (Wright, 2004). It appears that it is the act of leaving the marks, not the marks themselves, that are important,
since by making the marks she is "preserving a finite ritualistic event and presenting it as a timeless work of art" (Wright, 2004). Another project is one in
which Mendieta "made a cast of her hand" and then used the cast as a sort of branding iron to brand a book, "page by page. The random differentiations
in the burns are alluring. Her marks are left indirectly - a basic strategy Mendieta explored in her relentless investigation of our connection to the earth" (Wright, 2004). Looking
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