Feminism or Need?: The Artistic Process in the Work of Eve Hesse and Ana Mendieta
Abstract
This paper reflects on the art as a therapeutic need to mitigate the inevitable wounds of the female artist. She is usually catalogued as·“active feminist”, because of the human endeavour to establish taxon in all areas. If you are a creative, committed woman whose work takes place on the second decade of the twentieth century, there is no problem to attach this label. If further along her history there appears a dominant male figure, which is more than likely, our fears are completely mitigated.
All these simplifications do not miss the truth in the strict sense, but are not quite beneficial if w take into account they assume the omission of other equally meaningful and enriching aspects. As examples of multiple and often muted critical analysis, we have chosen Eva Hesse and Ana Mendieta, two artists with a short productive life who knew they could channel their fears through their work, through which they found a way out.
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