University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Art & Art History ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations Summer 7-10-2017 Folk, the Naïve and Indigeneity: Defining Strategies in Violeta Parra's Visual Art Serda Yalkin University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/arth_etds Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Recommended Citation Yalkin, Serda. "Folk, the Naïve and Indigeneity: Defining Strategies in Violeta Parra's Visual Art." (2017). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/arth_etds/61 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Art & Art History ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Serda Yalkin Candidate Art and Art History Department This thesis is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication: Approved by the Thesis Committee: Kirsten Pai Buick, Chairperson Elizabeth Hutchison Kency Cornejo Holly Barnet-Sánchez i FOLK, THE NAÏVE, AND INDIGENEITY: DEFINING STRATEGIES IN VIOLETA PARRA’S VISUAL ART by SERDA YALKIN B.A., ART HISTORY, BARD COLLEGE, 2009 M.A., ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2017 THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Art History The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico July 2017 ii DEDICATION In memory of my father Oktar Ilyas Yalkin (1943–2016) I love you Babacığım, nur içinde yat. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I must express my sincere gratitude to Kirsten Buick: my advisor, thesis chair, and mentor.