Unsettled Visions - Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary

Informationen zum Autor Margo Machida Klappentext 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Machida, Margo Machida, Margo Machida
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2009
• EAN: 9780822342045
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4204-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe; Objects/Histories
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history