Chicana/o remix : art and errata since the sixties / Karen Mary Davalos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davalos, Karen Mary, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American art--20th century.

Hispanic American art.

Hispanic American art--21st century.

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Physical Description:

xv, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Chicana/o Remix casts new light not only on artists-such as Sandra de la Loza, Judy Baca, and David Botello, among others-but on the exhibitions that feature their work, and the collectors, curators, critics, and advocates who engage it. Combining feminist theory, critical ethnic studies, art historical analysis, and extensive archival and field research, Karen Mary Davalos argues that narrow notions of identity, politics, and aesthetics limit our ability to understand the full capacities of Chicana/o art. She employs fresh vernacular concepts such as the "errata exhibit," or the staging of exhibits that critically question mainstream art museums, and the "remix," or the act of bringing new narratives and forgotten histories from the background and into the foreground. These concepts, which emerge out of art practice itself, drive her analysis and reinforce the rejection of familiar narratives that evaluate Chicana/o art in simplistic, traditional terms, such as political versus commercial, or realist versus conceptual. Throughout Chicana/o Remix, Davalos explores undocumented or previously ignored information about artists, their cultural production, and the exhibitions and collections that feature their work. Each chapter exposes and challenges conventions in art history and Chicana/o studies, documenting how Chicana artists were the first to critically challenge exhibitions of Chicana/o art, tracing the origins of the first Chicano arts organizations, and highlighting the influence of Europe and Asia on Chicana/o artists who traveled abroad. As a leading scholar in the study of Chicana/o artists, art spaces, and exhibition practices, Davalos presents her most ambitious project to date in this reexamination of fifty years of Chicana/o art production. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Reframing Chicana/o Art 1

2 Errata Exhibitions: The Sites of Chicana/o Art Discourse 19

3 Looking at the Archive: Mechicano Art Center and Goez Art Studios and Gallery 63

4 Tours of Influence: Chicana/o Artists in Europe and Asia 97

5 Chicana/o Art Collectors: Critical Witness to Invisibility and Emplacement 151

6 Remixing: Tracing the Limitations of Art History in Los Angeles 181

7 Conclusion: Chicana/o Day at the Museum 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479877966

1479877964

9781479821129

1479821128

OCLC:

961160629