Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the Cara Exhibition

by Alicia Gaspar De Alba

Book Overview

In the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental questions about the nature of multiculturalism in the U.S.

This book presents the first interdisciplinary cultural study of the CARA exhibit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292728050
• ISBN13: 9780292728059
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"