Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's "Irreverent Apparition" [With CD (Audio)]

by Alicia Gaspar De Alba

Book Overview

Months before Alma L pez's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats ensued, but the provocative image of la Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad only in roses, and exalted by a bare-breasted butterfly angel)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292726422
• ISBN13: 9780292726420
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"