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Unsettled Visions Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary

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ISBN-10: 0822342049

ISBN-13: 9780822342045

Edition: 2008

Authors: Margo Machida

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InUnsettled Visionsthe activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of 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: men and women 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…    
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Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.40" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

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).

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: 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
Epilogue: Toward an Ongoing Dialogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index