The Visionary Praxis of Violeta Parra
Music, Poetry, and Art
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2025
200 pages
978-1-9787-6130-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines Chilean singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet and ethnographer Violeta Parra (1917-1967). Parra perceived her multiple outputs to be unified and continuous with her own self, demonstrating unequalled artistic agency in a hybrid creative space that she personally constructed and embraced via her poetry, music, and her visual art.
The Visionary Praxis of Violeta Parra: Music, Poetry, and Art analyzes the hybrid artistic space of Chilean icon Violeta Parra (1917-1967). Lorna Dillon and Patricia Vilches examine the forces, connections, disruptions, and juxtapositions in the music that Parra compiled and composed; the art that she generated, and the poetry that she produced. The authors explore Parra's profound desire to preserve and retain cultural tradition even as she blended, transformed, and embraced notions of modernity and the avant-garde.Parra was shaped by Ñuble, the region where she was born, and she absorbed the cultural diversity of Chile's Central Valley. The vicissitudes and changes of her life inform her artistic creations in foundational ways. The authors explore how Parra's artistic production matured during periods of relentless and sustained creative activity and intense effort which she viewed as continuous with, and inseparable from, her own representation of self.
The Visionary Praxis of Violeta Parra: Music, Poetry, and Art analyzes the hybrid artistic space of Chilean icon Violeta Parra (1917-1967). Lorna Dillon and Patricia Vilches examine the forces, connections, disruptions, and juxtapositions in the music that Parra compiled and composed; the art that she generated, and the poetry that she produced. The authors explore Parra's profound desire to preserve and retain cultural tradition even as she blended, transformed, and embraced notions of modernity and the avant-garde.Parra was shaped by Ñuble, the region where she was born, and she absorbed the cultural diversity of Chile's Central Valley. The vicissitudes and changes of her life inform her artistic creations in foundational ways. The authors explore how Parra's artistic production matured during periods of relentless and sustained creative activity and intense effort which she viewed as continuous with, and inseparable from, her own representation of self.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 b&w photos
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-6130-8 (9781978761308)
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€123.20
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Persons
Lorna Dillion is an Assistant Professor in History of Art in the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Babtist University.
Patricia Vilches is Professor of Spanish and Italian at Lawrence University and Visiting Fellow at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.
Patricia Vilches is Professor of Spanish and Italian at Lawrence University and Visiting Fellow at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.
Content
Introduction: Violeta Parra: Her Artistic Scope and Vision
Chapter 1: From Artistic Marginalization to the Chilean Canon
Chapter 2: The Spatiality of the Artist
Chapter 3: From Ethnographer to Experimental Artist
Chapter 4: The Outlier Text: Rural and Urban Aesthetics
Chapter 5: Parras Artistic Legacy and Scholarship
About the Authors
Chapter 1: From Artistic Marginalization to the Chilean Canon
Chapter 2: The Spatiality of the Artist
Chapter 3: From Ethnographer to Experimental Artist
Chapter 4: The Outlier Text: Rural and Urban Aesthetics
Chapter 5: Parras Artistic Legacy and Scholarship
About the Authors
