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Unsettled visions : contemporary Asian American artists and the social imaginary / Margo Machida.

Summary:

"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. In dialogue with the artists, Machida illuminates and contextualizes the origins of and intent behind bodies of their work. Unsettled Visions is an engrossing look at a vital art scene and a subtle account of the multiple, shifting meanings of "Asianness" in Asian American art."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780822341871 (cloth : alk. pa
ISBN: 9780822341871 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780822342045 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0822341875 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0822342049 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xx, 362 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press : c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-351) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Art, Asian America, and the social imaginary: a poetics of positionality -- A play of positionalities: reconsidering identification -- Othering: primitivism, orientalism, and stereotyping -- Trauma, social memory, and art -- Migration, mixing, and place -- Toward an ongoing dialogue.