Home--so different, so appealing / Chon A. Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Pilar Tompkins Rivas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, organizer, host institution, publisher.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, organizer, host institution, publisher.

University of California, Los Angeles. Chicano Studies Research Center. Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home in art--20th century--Exhibitions.

Home in art.

Home in art--21st century--Exhibitions.

Hispanic American art--Themes, motives--20th century--Exhibitions.

Hispanic American art.

Hispanic American art--Themes, motives--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, Latin American--Themes, motives--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Latin American.

Art, Latin American--Themes, motives--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, Latin American--Themes, motives.

Hispanic American art--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 31 cm

Distribution:

Seattle, Washington : distributed by University of Washington Press.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, California : UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Houston, Texas : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [2017]

Summary:

Home signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home has been a little noted, although prevalent, feature in art since the 1950s, a period in which artists challenged the traditional object of the visual arts through the use of material and media culture, new forms, and performative actions and processes. This volume explores works by diverse U.S. Latino and Latin American artists whose engagement with the concept of home provides the basis for an alternative narrative of post-war art. Their work brings together an impressive array of formal languages, conceptual strategies, and art historical references with the varied social concerns characterizing both the postwar period in the Americas and an emerging global economy impacting day-to-day life. The artists featured in this volume engage home as both concept and artifact. This book reveals the departures and confluences that continue to shape US Latino and Latin American art and expands our appreciation of these artists and their work.

Contents:

To dwell on this matrix of places / Chon A. Noriega

Political agency and/or strategies of autoconstrucción? : a critical approach to "home" in the Americas / Mari Carmen Ramirez

Establishing and destabilizing notions of home in the Americas / Pilar Tompkins Rivas

Model homes

Archaeology of home

Mapping home

Recycled homes

Home as form

Embodied home

Troubled homeland

Going home.

Notes:

"'Home--So Different, So Appealing' is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in diagloue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than seventy cultural institutions across Southern California. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty."--title verso.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 11-October 15, 2017; and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 17, 2017-January 21, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Home--So Different, So Appealing" : June 11-October 15, 2017, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, United States.

"Home--So Different, So Appealing" : November 17, 2017-January 21, 2018, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States.

Contains:

Noriega, Chon A., 1961- To dwell on this matrix of places.

Ramírez, Mari Carmen, 1955- Political agency and/or strategies of autoconstrucción?

Tompkins Rivas, Pilar. Establishing and destabilizing notions of home in the Americas.

ISBN:

9780895511645

0895511649

OCLC:

1006535726