Unsettled Visions - Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary

A study of how artists of diverse Asian heritages and generational backgrounds use their artwork to articulate complex notions of identity and identification as Asians living in the United States.

List of contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction: Art, Asian America, and the Social Imaginary: A Poetics of Positionality 1

1. A Play of Positionalities: Reconsidering Identification 17

2. Othering: Primitivism, Orientalism, and Stereotyping 57

3. Trauma, Social Memory, and Art 120

4. Migration, Mixing, and Place 194

Epilogue: Toward an Ongoing Dialogue 271

Notes 283

Bibliography 321

Index 353

About the author

Margo Machida

Summary

Presents a pioneering exploration of Asian American visual art. This title focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, cultural, and political contours of Asian America, and a renaissance in Asian American art and visual culture was well underway.

Product details

• Authors: Margo Machida
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2009
• EAN: 9780822341871
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4187-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe; Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history