Research Catalog

Title

Chicano art inside/outside the master's house : cultural politics and the CARA exhibition / Alicia Gaspar de Alba.

Author

Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958-

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998.

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Description

xxi, 308 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

Interdisciplinary cultural study and discussion of an exhibition of Mexican-American art, known as C.A.R.A. (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation) which toured mainstream U.S. museums between 1990-1993.

Subject

• Mexican American art
• Politics in art
• Mexican American art > Public opinion
• Mexican Americans > Civil rights

Note

• Interdisciplinary cultural study and discussion of an exhibition of Mexican-American art, known as C.A.R.A. (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation) which toured mainstream U.S. museums between 1990-1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pre-Face/Pre-CARA -- Theoretical Introduction: Alter-Native Ethnography, a lo rasquache -- Pt. 1. Open House -- 1. Solar of Chicano/a Popular Culture: Mi casa [no] es su caso -- Pt. 2. Cara's Politics of Representation -- 2. Through Serpent and Eagle Eyes: Intercultural Collaboration -- 3. Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore's Mask: The Mirror of Malinchismo -- Pt. 3. Public Reception -- 4. "Between the Ghetto and the Melting Pot": Popular Hegemony. Conclusion: The Mutation of Multiculturalism -- App. A. Selected Viewer Comments -- App. B. Organizational Structure of the CARA Exhibition.

ISBN

• 0292728018 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0292728050 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97011398^

OCLC

• 36589431
• SCSB-12620192

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Harvard Library