Born of resistance : cara a cara encounters with Chicana/o visual culture / edited by Scott L. Baugh and Victor A. Sorell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baugh, Scott L., editor.

Sorell, V. A. (Victor A.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American art--Political aspects.

Mexican American art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This collection of essays gives voice to a diversity of perspectives involved in the production, exhibition, documentation, and interpretation of landmark Chicana/o visual cultural expression since the 1960s, exploring the idea of resistance, with a unifying theme that all art is political; artwork discussed includes etching, lithography, digital retablos, wooden sculpture, photography, painting, video installation, and documentary film"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Resisting Definitions of Chicana/o Visual Culture (Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell); Part I; (Re)Forming America's Libertad (Ester Hernández); Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández's Libertad (Laura E. Pérez); A Conversation with Yolanda López and Víctor A. Sorell; Thoughts on Who's the Illegal Pilgrim (René Yañez); Remapping America in Ester Hernández's Libertad and Yolanda López's Who's the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim? (Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano); Part II; San Diego Donkey Cart Reconsidered (David Avalos)

A Remembered Dismemberment: David Avalos's San Diego Donkey Cart (Lynn Schuette)The Border Door: Complicating a Binary Space (Richard A. Lou); Through The Border Door (Patricio Chávez); Public Interventions and Social Disruptions: David Avalos's San Diego Donkey Cart and Richard Lou's The Border Door (Guisela Latorre); Part III; Thoughts on Dos Pedros sin Llaves (Luis Tapia with Carmella Padilla); Thoughts on St. Peter Is Imprisoned (Nicholas Herrera with Sallie Gallegos); Pedro in the Pinta, Have You Seen My Keys?: Inside the Art of Luis Tapia and Nicholas Herrera (Tey Marianna Nunn)

The Persistence of Chicana/o Art: Contemporary Santeros Reinterpret a Traditional Santo (Víctor A. Sorell) Part IV; From Man on Fire (Luis Jiménez); Editorial Note (Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell); Rearing Mustang, Razing Mesteño (Delilah Montoya); Kindred Spirits: On the Art and Life of Luis Jiménez (Ellen Landis); Occupying a Space Between Myth and Reality: The Sculpture of Luis Jiménez (Charles R. Loving); Part V; A Conversation with Mel Casas and Rubén C. Cordova; Brown Paper Report (Mel Casas and Con Safo); A Contingency Factor (Mel Casas and Con Safo)

Getting the Big Picture: Political Themes in the Humanscapes of Mel Casas (Rubén C. Cordova)Part VI; Revisiting My Alamo (Kathy Vargas); Malinche y Pocahontas, Breaking Out of the Picture (Robert C. Buitrón); From "Many Wests" (Chon A. Noriega); Topographies of the Imaginary: Kathy Vargas's My Alamo and Robert C. Buitrón's El Corrido de Happy Trails (Jennifer A. González); Where Carnales Were, There Shall Unprodigal Daughters Be: Kathy Vargas's My Alamo and Robert C. Buitrón's Malinche y Pocahontas (Asta Kuusinen); Part VII; A Conversation with Willie Varela and Scott L. Baugh

In This Burning World, Willie Varela Resists (Kate Bonansinga) Sense and Sensibilities: Discontinuing Conventions in/for Willie Varela's Burning World (Scott L. Baugh); Part VIII; Tracking the Monster: Thoughts on Señorita Extraviada (Lourdes Portillo); Between Anger and Love: The Presence of Señorita Extraviada (Bienvenida Matías); The Eye of Pain/El Ojo del Dolor (Claire Joysmith); Resisting the Violence of Values: Lourdes Portillo's Señorita Extraviada as Performative Utterance (Mónica F. Torres); Part IX

From Yo Soy Chicano to Resurrection Blvd., Thirty Years of Struggle (Jesús Salvador Treviño)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3222-2

OCLC:

927446609