Violeta Parra’s Visual ArtThis book explores Violeta Parras visual art, focusing on her embroideries (arpilleras), paintings, papier mch collages and sculptures. Parra is one of Chiles great artists and musicians, yet her visual art is relatively unknown. Her fusion of complex imagery from Chilean folk music and culture with archetypes in Western art results in a hybrid body of work. Parras hybridism is the story of this book, in which Dillon explores Parras painted songs, the