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Unsettled visions : contemporary Asian American artists and the social imaginary /
A study of how artists of diverse Asian heritages and generational backgrounds use their artwork to articulate complex notions of identity and identification as Asians living in the United States.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Objects/histories.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | A study of how artists of diverse Asian heritages and generational backgrounds use their artwork to articulate complex notions of identity and identification as Asians living in the United States. "In Unsettled Visions, the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, cultural, and political contours of Asian America, and a renaissance in Asian American art and visual culture was well underway. Machida conducted extensive interviews with ten artists working during this transformative period: women and men of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese descent, most of whom migrated to the United States.-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 362 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-351) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822391746 0822391740 1283065223 9781283065221 9786613065223 6613065226 |