1st Place, Best Cover Design, 2018 International Latino Book Awards 1st Place, Best Cover Photo, 2018 International Latino Book Awards 2nd Place, Best Latino-Focused Book Design, 2018 International Latino Book Awards 2nd Place, Best Interior Design, 2018 International Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention, Best Use of Photos Inside the Book, 2018, International Latino Book Awards Home — signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin — embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home has been a little noted, although prevalent, feature in art since the 1950s, a period in which artists challenged the traditional “object” of the visual arts through the use of material and media culture, new forms, and performative actions and processes. This volume explores works by diverse U.S. Latino and Latin American artists whose engagement with the concept of “home” provides the basis for an alternative narrative of post-war art. Their work brings together an impressive array of formal languages, conceptual strategies, and art historical references with the varied social concerns characterizing both the postwar period in the Americas and an emerging global economy impacting day-to-day life. The artists featured in this volume engage home as both concept and artifact. This can be seen in the use of building fragments or excisions (Gordon Matta-Clark, Gabriel de la Mora, and Leyla C�rdenas), household furniture (Raphael Monta�ez Ortiz, Beatriz Gonz�lez, Doris Salcedo, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Guillermo Kuitca), and personal possessions (Carmen Argote, Mar�a Teresa Hincapi�, Camilo Ontiveros), and also in the use of coca leaves as a material base of the American Dream and its economic exchange with Colombia (Miguel Angel Rojas). Within more representational work, home is the re-creation of fraught domiciles (Abraham Cruzvillegas, Pep�n Osorio, Daniel J. Martinez), a collage of spaces, styles, and materials (Antonio Berni, Andr�s Asturias, Jorge Pedro Nu�ez, Miguel Angel R�os, Juan Sanchez), and a juxtaposition of bodies and place (Laura Aguilar, Myrna B�ez, Johanna Calle, Perla de Le�n, Ramiro Gomez, Jessica Kair�, Vincent Valdez). In more conceptual work, home is all these things reduced to form—a floor plan (Luis Camnitzer, Le�n Ferrari, Mar�a Elena Gonz�lez, Guillermo Kuitca), a catalog of objects (Antonio Martorell, Hincapi�), or a housing development plan (Livia Corona Benjamin, Martinez). In the end, home is a journey without arrival (Allora y Calzadilla, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Christina Fernandez, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Julio C�sar Morales, Teresa Serrano). Home—So Different, So Appealing reveals the departures and confluences that continue to shape US Latino and Latin American art and expands our appreciation of these artists and their work.

About the Author

Chon A. Noriega, a professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been the director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center since 2002 and editor for the CSRC Press since 1996. He is the author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema.Mari Carmen Ram�rez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the director of the museum’s International Center for the Arts of the Americas. Pilar Tompkins Rivas is the director of Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College.

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