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Museum Frictions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 642

Museum Frictions

  • Categories: Art

This third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums examines the effects of globalization on contemporary museum, heritage, and exhibition practices.

Chicano and Chicana Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Chicano and Chicana Art

  • Categories: Art

This anthology provides an overview of the history and theory of Chicano/a art from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the debates and vocabularies that have played key roles in its conceptualization. In Chicano and Chicana Art—which includes many of Chicano/a art's landmark and foundational texts and manifestos—artists, curators, and cultural critics trace the development of Chicano/a art from its early role in the Chicano civil rights movement to its mainstream acceptance in American art institutions. Throughout this teaching-oriented volume they address a number of themes, including the politics of border life, public art practices such as posters and murals, and feminist and queer...

Resisting Categories: Latin American And/or Latino?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1162

Resisting Categories: Latin American And/or Latino?

  • Categories: Art

"This anthology of more than 165 seminal writings by influential twentieth- and twenty-first century artists and critics who explore and challenge complex definitions of what it means to be 'Latin American' or 'Latino' is designed to be an indispensable tool for the study of Latin American and Latino art"--

Arte Chicano
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 802

Arte Chicano

  • Categories: Art

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Chicano literature, text and context
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 412

Chicano literature, text and context

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Our America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Our America

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Giles

Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture.

Exhibiting Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

Exhibiting Cultures

  • Categories: Art

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.

Santa Barraza, Artist of the Borderlands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Santa Barraza, Artist of the Borderlands

  • Categories: Art

Santa Barraza paints bold representations of Nepantla, the Land Between. Her work depicts the historical, emotional, and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between the familiar and the sacred, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs and Mayas. More than thirty of her most powerful and characteristic works are offered in full color and considered in this ground-breaking study of a nationally important Tejana artist. Over the last twenty-five years of her career as a visual artist, Barraza has explored what it is to be a Chicana and a mestiza in this country. Utilizing a variety of media, she has embarked on an artistic journey full of family portraits, waterco...

Chicano Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408
Give Me Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Give Me Life

This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced.