2. It’s Not about the Art in the Folk, It’s about the Folks in the Art: A Curator’s Tale

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Images ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 0. Our Lady of Controversy: A Subject That Needs No Introduction 1
6. 1. The Artist of Our Lady (April 2, 2001) 13
7. 2. It’s Not about the Art in the Folk, It’s about the Folks in the Art: A Curator’s Tale 17
8. 3. The War of the Roses: Guadalupe, Alma López, and Santa Fe 43
9. 4. Making Privates Public: It’s Not about La Virgen of the Conquest, but about the Conquest of La Virgen 69
10. 5. Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma López 96
11. 6. Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Consciousness in Alma López’s Visual Art 121
12. 7. The Decolonial Virgin in a Colonial Site: It’s Not about the Gender in My Nation, It’s about the Nation in My Gender 148
13. 8. It’s Not about the Virgins in My Life, It’s about the Life in My Virgins 165
14. 9. Do U Think I’m a Nasty Girl? 195
15. 10. Devil in a Rose Bikini: The Second Coming of Our Lady in Santa Fe 212
16. 11. It’s Not about the Santa in My Fe, but the Santa Fe in My Santa 249
17. Appendix: Selected Viewer Comments 293
18. About the Contributors 311
19. Index 315