| Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the Cara Exhibition Contributor(s): De Alba, Alicia Gaspar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0292728050 ISBN-13: 9780292728059 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: In the early 1990s a major exhibition--"Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985"--toured major museums across the United States. The exhibit attracted both praise and controversy. This book presents the first interdisciplinary cultural study of the CARA exhibit. Alicia Gaspar de Alba shows how the exhibit reflected, and serves as a model for, the cultural and sexual politics of the Chicano Movement. 20 color and 58 b&w photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | American - General |
| Dewey: 704.036 |
| LCCN: 97011398 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.05" W x 9.23" (1.29 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the early 1990s, a major exhibition--Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985--toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental questions about the nature of multiculturalism in the U.S. This book presents the first interdisciplinary cultural study of the CARA exhibit. Alicia Gaspar de Alba looks at the exhibit as a cultural text in which the Chicano/a community affirmed itself not as a subculture within the U.S. but as an alter-Native culture in opposition to the exclusionary and homogenizing practices of mainstream institutions. She also shows how the exhibit reflected the cultural and sexual politics of the Chicano Movement and how it serves as a model of Chicano/a popular culture more generally. Drawing insights from cultural studies, feminist theory, anthropology, and semiotics, this book constitutes a wide-ranging analysis of Chicano/a art, popular culture, and mainstream cultural politics. It will appeal to a diverse audience in all of these fields. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gaspar De Alba, Alicia: - Alicia Gaspar de Alba is Professor at the César E. Chávez Center for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. |