Margo Machida

Unsettled Visions

Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1129g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342045
• ISBN-10: 0822342049
• Artikelnr.: 23911226

Autorenporträt

Margo Machida is Associate Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is a co-editor of Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art, winner of the Association of Asian American Studies’ 2005 Cultural Studies Book Award. Machida curated the groundbreaking 1994 Asia Society group exhibition ASIA/AMERICA: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art. She is a co-founder of the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium and Godzilla: Asian American Art Network (1990–2001).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Art, Asian America, and the Social Imaginary: A Poetics of
Positionality 1
1. A Play of Positionalities: Reconsidering Identification 17
2. Othering: Primitivism, Orientalism, and Stereotyping 57
3. Trauma, Social Memory, and Art 120
4. Migration, Mixing, and Place 194
Epilogue: Toward an Ongoing Dialogue 271
Notes 283
Bibliography 321
Index 353