Home ― So Different, So Appealing

Home ― So Different, So Appealing

Home â€• signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin â€• embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home has been a little noted, although prevalent, feature in art since the 1950s, a period in which artists challenged the traditional "object" of the visual arts through the use of material and media culture, new forms, and performative actions and processes. This volume explores works by diverse U.S. Latino and Latin American artists whose engagement with the concept of "home" provides the basis for an alternative narrative of post-war art. Their work brings together an impressive array of formal languages, conceptual strategies, and art historical references with the varied social concerns characterizing both the postwar period in the Americas and an emerging global economy impacting day-to-day life.

The artists featured in this volume engage home as both concept and artifact. This can be seen in the use of building fragments or excisions (Gordon Matta-Clark, Gabriel de la Mora, and Leyla CÃ¡rdenas), household furniture (Raphael MontaÃ±ez Ortiz, Beatriz GonzÃ¡lez, Doris Salcedo, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Guillermo Kuitca), and personal possessions (Carmen Argote, MarÃa Teresa HincapiÃ©, Camilo Ontiveros), and also in the use of coca leaves as a material base of the American Dream and its economic exchange with Colombia (Miguel Angel Rojas). Within more representational work, home is the re-creation of fraught domiciles (Abraham Cruzvillegas, PepÃ³n Osorio, Daniel J. Martinez), a collage of spaces, styles, and materials (Antonio Berni, AndrÃ©s Asturias, Jorge Pedro NuÃ±ez, Miguel Angel RÃos, Juan Sanchez), and a juxtaposition of bodies and place (Laura Aguilar, Myrna BÃ¡ez, Johanna Calle, Perla de LeÃ³n, Ramiro Gomez, Jessica KairÃ©, Vincent Valdez). In more conceptual work, home is all these things reduced to formâ€•a floor plan (Luis Camnitzer, LeÃ³n Ferrari, MarÃa Elena GonzÃ¡lez, Guillermo Kuitca), a catalog of objects (Antonio Martorell, HincapiÃ©), or a housing development plan (Livia Corona Benjamin, Martinez). In the end, home is a journey without arrival (Allora y Calzadilla, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Christina Fernandez, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Julio CÃ©sar Morales, Teresa Serrano).

Homeâ€•So Different, So Appealing reveals the departures and confluences that continue to shape US Latino and Latin American art and expands our appreciation of these artists and their work.

Country	USA
Brand	UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Manufacturer	UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780895511645
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EANs	9780895511645
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