"'Home--So Different, So Appealing' is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in diagloue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than seventy cultural institutions across Southern California. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty."--Title verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Home--So Different, So Appealing" : June 11-October 15, 2017, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, United States. "Home--So Different, So Appealing" : November 17, 2017-January 21, 2018, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States.
Contents:
To dwell on this matrix of places / Chon A. Noriega -- Political agency and/or strategies of autoconstruccion? : a critical approach to "home" in the Americas / Mari Carmen Ramirez -- Establishing and destabilizing notions of home in the Americas / Pilar Tompkins Rivas -- Model homes -- Archaeology of home -- Mapping home -- Recycled homes -- Home as form -- Embodied home -- Troubled homeland -- Going home.
Summary:
Home signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin 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 Their work brings together an impressive array of formal languages, conceptual strategies, and art historical references with the varied social concerns characterizing both the postwar period in the Americas and an emerging global economy impacting day-to-day life.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 book 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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.