03 August 11
By Lauren Weinberg
Time Out Chicago
Graphic novel Who is Ana Mendieta remembers the artist. -Christine Redfern and Caro Caron reexamine Ana Mendieta’s career and tragic death
On September 8, 1985, 36-year-old artist Ana Mendieta died in a fall from the window of her New York apartment. Her death looms over the flawed but fascinating graphic novella Who Is Ana Mendieta? (The Feminist Press, $18.95), written by Christine Redfern and illustrated by Caro Caron. The book is equally consumed by another tragedy: the disappearance of Mendieta’s work into what Redfern terms “the void.”
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