Machida / Thomas Unsettled Visions

Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9174-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Objects/Histories

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Machida, Margo

Thomas, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Margo Machida is Associate Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is a co-editor of Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art, winner of the Association of Asian American Studies’ 2005 Cultural Studies Book Award. Machida curated the groundbreaking 1994 Asia Society group exhibition ASIA/AMERICA: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art. She is a co-founder of the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium and Godzilla: Asian American Art Network (1990–2001).