Reviews for Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town

The average rating for Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-21 00:00:00 Darrel J. Antonelli With the opening of Warhol's exhibit at the Vatican recently, his religious art has been in the spotlight. However, few reliable curators have enough knowledge about religious art as well as as modern art to give a proper analysis. Dagget (RIP) may have been the exception. Too bad this book is so hard to find in the public domain. The biography of Warhol should be taken with a grain of salt, though. A lot more is known about Warhol's private life nowadays. It seems that his Byzantine rite Catholicism lived side by side if not always in harmony with his gay side. Daggett's reading of the art was very good however. I enjoyed the close ups of the icons and religious art from Andy's bedroom and that of his childhood living room. For Daggett, the lover of art must look to Warhol's background in commercial art in order to see the connection between religious iconography and dollar symbols in his paintings. Andy may indeed have been trying to sell people on the Mother of God. You have to wonder how much of this was lost his hanger ons as well as his critics.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-17 00:00:00 Donald Cline This is a beautiful coffee table book with lovely illustrations of some of Warhol's most striking pieces. The author has researched thoroughly to gain a grasp of the vast scope of religiosity to be found within the body of Warhol's work. She does a fine job of describing various of the Warhol series and interpreting through her own vision the religious significance of colors, patterns, line, subject matter he has utilized in individual pieces. The book is more about the work than the man insofar as it can be separated from the personal; in Warhol's case much IS very personal which does emerge in Dillengerger's treatment. I did enjoy reading this, although it took me a while to get through it. I found for myself that taking it in separate sessions spread out over time helped in digesting earlier concepts and readying for later efforts to progress through the book.