Dávila / Arlene Davila Latinx Art

Artists, Markets, and Politics
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0885-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore how and why the contemporary international art market continues to overlook, devalue, and marginalize Latinx art and artists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dávila, Arlene

Arlene Davila, Davila

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments & Reader Instructions vii
Introduction. Making Latinx Art 1
1. What Is Latinx Art? Lessons from Chicanx and Diasporican Artists 23
2. Exhibiting Latinx Art: On Critics, Curators, and Going "Beyond the Formula" 48
3. Nationalism and the Currency of Categories 79
4. On Markets and the Need for Cheerleaders 104
5. Whitewashing at Work, and Some Ways Out 138
Conclusion: At the Vanguard of Arts and Museum Activism in the Twenty-First Century 168
Appendix A: Noncomprehensive List of Artists Everyone Should Know 177
Appendix B: Additional Resources 185
Notes 189
References 203
Index 223

Über Autor(innen)

Arlene Dávila is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University and the author of several books, including El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America, Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility across the Neoliberal Americas, and Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race.