Chicano art inside/outside the master's house : cultural politics and the CARA exhibition / Alicia Gaspar de Alba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American art.

Politics in art.

Mexican American art--Public opinion.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights.

Mexican Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Theoretical Introduction: Alter-Native Ethnography, a to rasquache

1. The Solar of Chicano/a Popular Culture: Mi casa [no] es su casa

2. Through Serpent and Eagle Eyes: Intercultural Collaboration

3. Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore s Mask: The Mirror of Malinchismo

4. "Between the Ghetto and the Melting Pot": Popular Hegemony

Conclusion: The Mutation of Multiculturalism

Appendix A Selected Viewer Comments

Appendix B The Organizational Structure of the CARA Exhibition

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-75734-4

OCLC:

1280944641