Violent States and Existential-Therapeutic Work in Mexican Ex-Voto Painting

In J. Adlam, T. Kluttig & B. Lee (eds.), Violent States and Creative States: From the Global to the Individual (2018)
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This paper undertakes an analysis of the distinctive forms of self-consciousness, self-representation and existential-therapeutic work characteristic of the ex-voto paintings in Mexican folk art, and examines the appropriation thereof in Kahlo's Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair.

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