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Event:
Regarded/Disregarded: The Reception of Body/Culture: Chicano Figuration of 1990-92,
11/10/2009
| Event: |
Regarded/Disregarded: The Reception of Body/Culture: Chicano Figuration of 1990-92 |
| Series: |
Art History Lecture Series |
| Speaker: |
Kristin Schlosser - Art History Program |
| Description: |
To examine the exclusion of Chicano art and artists, Schlosser plans to review the reception of Body/Culture: Chicano Figuration, a traveling exhibition that toured five college universities from Nov. 6, 1990 to Feb. 27, 1992. Body/Culture premiered 12 Chicano artists including two relatively well-known painters, Enrique Chagoya and Carmen Lomas Garza. The reception from local newspaper reviews did not focus on the art, artists, quality, skill, or formal analysis in the way that art reviews of mainstream artists usually do. Instead, the reviews subtlety regurgitated colonial discourse with regard to the Chicano artists' culture rather than focusing on the artists' merits. Although Body/Culture premiered noteworthy Chicano art, it seems that the hegemonic art world was not yet ready to acknowledge its excellence or importance. Schlosser will argue we must realize the problematic representation, acknowledgment, and scholarship on art of periphery cultures within the current Euro-centric and Anglo-centric art history. We must recognize these inequities and work towards acknowledging and increasing the art history discourse to include the multitude of talented and accomplished non-white artists. |
| Starting date: |
11/10/2009
Ending date:
11/10/2009
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| Starting time: |
4:10 PM
Ending time:
6:00 PM
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| Event type: |
Seminar |
| Location: |
210D Art Building |
| Sponsored by: |
Art History Program
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| Cost: |
free to all |
| Event Website: |
http://arthistory.ucdavis.edu/Notices/2009-2010/Schlosser.pdf |
Contact if questions about this event: |
| Contact name: |
Katharine Burnett |
| Contact e-mail: |
kpburnett@ucdavis.edu |
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