Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America - Softcover

Lippard, Lucy R.

 
9780679729662: Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America

Synopsis

Provides illustrations of artwork by African-American, American Indian, Asian-American, and Latin-American artists, and explains how the artists explore their histories and heritages in their pieces

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oday there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural process taking place in the work of Latino, Native-, African-, and Asian-American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different mediums, and filled with incisive quotes and unsettling reports, it is more than a book about art, it is a complex meditation on the relationships of people to their cultures.

Lucy R. Lippard, one of our most original and insightful writers on art, challenges conventional approaches and explores the role of images in a changing society. Among her subjects are the uncertainty of exile; the confusion of identity in attempts to climb out of the melting pot; and art that speaks for itself, reversing stereotypes and reclaiming history and memory. Mixed Blessings is a book that will affect how we think of ourselves and each other.

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9781565845732: Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America

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ISBN 10:  1565845730 ISBN 13:  9781565845732
Publisher: The New Press, 2000
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