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Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the Cara Exhibition Paperback - 1998

by Alicia Gaspar De Alba

In the early 1990s a major exhibition--"Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985"--toured major museums across the United States. The exhibit attracted both praise and controversy. This book presents the first interdisciplinary cultural study of the CARA exhibit. Alicia Gaspar de Alba shows how the exhibit reflected, and serves as a model for, the cultural and sexual politics of the Chicano Movement. 20 color and 58 b&w photos.


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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. Alicia Gaspar de Alba looks at the exhibit as a cultural text in which the Chicano/a community affirmed itself not as a "subculture" within the U.S. but as an "alter-Native" culture in opposition to the exclusionary and homogenizing practices of mainstream institutions. She also shows how the exhibit reflected the cultural and sexual politics of the Chicano Movement and how it serves as a model of Chicano/a popular culture more generally.

Drawing insights from cultural studies, feminist theory, anthropology, and semiotics, this book constitutes a wide-ranging analysis of Chicano/a art, popular culture, and mainstream cultural politics. It will appeal to a diverse audience in all of these fields.

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  • Title Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the Cara Exhibition
  • Author Alicia Gaspar De Alba
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 332
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Texas Press, Austin
  • Date 1998-01-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780292728059 / 0292728050
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.05 x 0.82 in (23.44 x 15.37 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
  • Library of Congress subjects Politics in art, Mexican American art
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97011398
  • Dewey Decimal Code 704.036

About the author

Alicia Gaspar de Alba is Professor at the Csar E. Chvez Center for Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA.
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