Unsettled Visions
Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary
1st Edition
Published on 23. January 2009
384 pages
978-0-8223-9174-6 (ISBN)
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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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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).
Content
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
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
