"My art speaks for both my peoples"
Elizabeth Catlett's graphics at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (1946-1966)
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Elizabeth Catlett , Taller de Gráfica Popular , IntersectionalityAbstract
Departing from her personal experiences and from her double nationality, American and Mexican, the sculptor and graphic artist Elizabeth Catlett developed a very dynamic concept of identity, nourished by both her lived experiences, and by historical memory. In this paper I study the engravings produced by the artist during her participation with the Taller de Gráfica Popular, focusing on the works in which she represented black American and Mexican indigenous women, pieces with which the artist notably contributed to the expansion of the social preoccupations characteristic of the workshop, in order to also embrace the recognition of the identity of gender, class, and race, as well as of their intersectionality, according to the concept created by the feminist Kimberlé Crenshaw in order to name the crossed perception of the relationships of power and oppression.
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