Flowers Disguised

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" Flowers Disguised "
Soo Y. Kang

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081929
Doc. No	:	LA125558
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02301005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Soo Y. Kang
Title & Author	:	Flowers Disguised [Article]\ Soo Y. Kang
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	23/1-2
Page No	:	100–123
Abstract	:	Since the late twentieth century, Latina artists have used Catholic images, such as depictions of altars and the Virgin of Guadalupe, to speak both for themselves and for women’s issues at large. Maria Tomasula seems far from that norm, since she focuses on tightly constructed, dramatic still life, painted in the traditional European illusionistic manner. She reveals, however, Catholic influences and feminist messages in her flower paintings. This article aims to unveil the woman’s voice in the works of still life by Tomasula, as communicated through embedded Catholic symbolism and references. It will examine how her works evoke the home altar tradition as well as images of saints in martyrdom to speak for the Mexican American woman. This article also applies the concept of the abject, as espoused by Kristeva to denote a woman’s realm, to Tomasula’s art. Tomasula’s still lifes thus ultimately delineate a woman’s space and her discrete experience.
Descriptor	:	abject
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Day of the Dead
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Julia Kristeva
Descriptor	:	Maria Tomasula
Descriptor	:	martyrdom
Descriptor	:	ofrenda
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Sacred Heart
Descriptor	:	skull
Descriptor	:	still life
Descriptor	:	woman’s voice
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02301005‬