Moctezuma's Table - Rolando Briseno's Mexican and Chicano Tablescapes

Informationen zum Autor NORMA E. CANTÚ is a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, specializing in Latina/o and Chicana/o literature. Her PhD is from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The art of ROLANDO BRISEÑO is held in a number of prestigious collections, including the Brooklyn and Bronx Museums of Art and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. He lives and works in San Antonio. Klappentext Briseno's exhibit, La mesa de Moctezuma/Moctezumas's table, was held at the Instituto Cultural Mexicano, San Antonio, and later at the Instituto de Mexico, Montreal, Canada. Zusammenfassung The table provides the food that sustains physical life. It is also the setting for people to share the fellowship that sustains cultural, community, and political life. In the vision of artist Rolando Briseño, food a way of understanding how culture nurtures the spirit. When cultures collide, food, its preparation, and the rituals surrounding it can preserve meanings and understandings.

Product details

• Authors: Norma E. (EDT) Cantu
• Assisted by: Norma E. Cantu (Editor), Norma Elia Cantu (Editor), Norma E Cantú (Editor)
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2010
• EAN: 9781603441834
• ISBN: 978-1-60344-183-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderla; Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions; Rio Grande/Río Bravo: Borderla
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art