RADICAL VIRTUOSITY, Ana Mendieta and the black Atlantic

333pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2019

ISBN: 9780262042703

Art historian Genevieve Hyacinthe on the life and work of Afro-Cuban performance and video artist, sculptor and painter Ana Mendieta (1948–1985).

“A tour de force of stunning beauty and courageous intelligence, this is a feast of textual, visual, and embodied yearnings across and beyond categories of black Atlantic rituals and postmodern thought. Voices across space and time join in conversation with Ana Mendieta and her radical re-imaging of art and justice.” D. Soyini Madison, Professor of Performance Studies, Northwestern University; author of Acts of Activism: Human rights as radical performance

“This is one of those rare books that will surprise the reader. With its expert weaving of Afro-Caribbean cultural traditions into the history of contemporary art, Genevieve Hyacinthe’s exhaustively researched study is without parallel in Mendieta’s bibliography.” Antonio Sergio Bessa, author of Öyvind Fahlström: The art of reading

Genevieve Hyacinthe is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.