{"title":"Y si quieres saber de mi pasado y La casa azul: Imaginación y sensibilidad surrealista en Chavela Vargas","authors":"Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro","doi":"10.7560/slapc4103","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes the construction, representation, and meaning of the personal relationship between painter Frida Kahlo and singer Chavela Vargas in the graphic novel La casa azul (Alba 2014) by the Catalan artist Tyto Alba. I explore how Alba re-creates and interprets the relationship between these two prominent popular culture figures based on Chavela’s memoirs Y si quieres saber de mi pasado (Vargas 2002) and Frida Kahlo’s Diario. Autorretrato íntimo (Kahlo 1995). In this analysis, I found particularly relevant the role played by dreams, daydreams, and imagination—all pillars of the surrealist movement to which Alba pays homage in La casa azul—as tools in the construction of the story and, more importantly, in the creation of Chavela’s subjectivity. Ultimately, I argue that Tyto Alba construes Frida as a metaphorical mirror in which Chavela sees herself and constructs her own personal identity.","PeriodicalId":53864,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7560/slapc4103","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article analyzes the construction, representation, and meaning of the personal relationship between painter Frida Kahlo and singer Chavela Vargas in the graphic novel La casa azul (Alba 2014) by the Catalan artist Tyto Alba. I explore how Alba re-creates and interprets the relationship between these two prominent popular culture figures based on Chavela’s memoirs Y si quieres saber de mi pasado (Vargas 2002) and Frida Kahlo’s Diario. Autorretrato íntimo (Kahlo 1995). In this analysis, I found particularly relevant the role played by dreams, daydreams, and imagination—all pillars of the surrealist movement to which Alba pays homage in La casa azul—as tools in the construction of the story and, more importantly, in the creation of Chavela’s subjectivity. Ultimately, I argue that Tyto Alba construes Frida as a metaphorical mirror in which Chavela sees herself and constructs her own personal identity.
摘要:本文分析了加泰罗尼亚艺术家泰托·阿尔巴(Tyto Alba)的平面小说《阿祖尔之家》(La casa azul,2014)中画家弗里达·卡罗(Frida Kahlo)和歌手查维拉·瓦尔加斯(Chavela Vargas)之间个人关系的构建、表现和意义。我根据Chavela的回忆录《Y si quieres saber de mi pasado》(Vargas 2002)和Frida Kahlo的《日记》,探讨了Alba如何重新创造和解释这两位著名的流行文化人物之间的关系。Autorretratoíntimo(卡罗,1995年)。在这篇分析中,我发现梦、白日梦和想象所扮演的角色尤其相关,这些都是阿尔巴在《阿祖之家》中所致敬的超现实主义运动的支柱,是构建故事的工具,更重要的是,也是创造查维拉主体性的工具。最终,我认为Tyto Alba将Frida理解为Chavela看待自己并构建自己个人身份的隐喻镜子。