Best!: Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts

Book Overview

"This refreshingly original anthology offers a remarkable window into the everyday spaces where art, biography, and cultural marginality provoke and enrich one another." --Arjun Appadurai, Max Weber Global Professor, Bard Graduate Center

This collection of seventy-three letters written in 2020 captures an unprecedented moment in politics and society through the experiences of Asian-American artists, curators, educators, art historians, editors, writers, and designers. The form of the letter offers readers intimate insights into the complexities of Asian American experiences, moving beyond the model-minority myth.

Chronicling everyday lives, dreams, rage, family histories, and cultural politics, these letters ignite new ways of being, and modes of creating, at a moment of racial reckoning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1736507907
• ISBN13: 9781736507902
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Paper Monument
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"