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Our America
Ramos, E. Carmen; Ybarra-Frausto, Tomas
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Description for Our America
Hardcover. Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 265. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 307 x 259 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2606.
Is Latino art an integral part of modern American art? Presenting over one hundred major artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Our America seeks to "recalibrate" enduring concepts about American national culture by exploring how one group of artists - those of Latin American descent and heritage - express their relationship to American art, history, and culture. Ramos addresses the whole issue of the definition of "Latino art" and how this emerged within the context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, as American artists of Latino descent began to give a tangible face to their ... Read more
Is Latino art an integral part of modern American art? Presenting over one hundred major artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Our America seeks to "recalibrate" enduring concepts about American national culture by exploring how one group of artists - those of Latin American descent and heritage - express their relationship to American art, history, and culture. Ramos addresses the whole issue of the definition of "Latino art" and how this emerged within the context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, as American artists of Latino descent began to give a tangible face to their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
D Giles Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907804441
SKU
V9781907804441
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99-15
About Ramos, E. Carmen; Ybarra-Frausto, Tomas
Author and curator E. Carmen Ramos is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's curator of Latino art. She has organised numerous shows, including "BLACKOUT: A Centennial Commission by Paul Henry Ramirez (2010), a site-specific exhibition at The Newark Museum and Cut, Build and Weld: Process in Works by Chakaia Booker (2010) at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit." ... Read more
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