Tracing Cultures: Albert Chong, Lewis Desoto, I.T.O., Young Kim, Komar & Melamid, Dinh Q. Lee, Gavin Lee, Maria Martinez-Canas, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Carrie Mae Weems (Points of Entry) - Softcover

Desoto, Lewis; Chong, Albert; Museum Of Photographic Arts (San Diego, Calif.); Solnit, Rebecca; Read, Michael; Jenkins, Steven

9780933286696: Tracing Cultures: Albert Chong, Lewis Desoto, I.T.O., Young Kim, Komar & Melamid, Dinh Q. Lee, Gavin Lee, Maria Martinez-Canas, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Carrie Mae Weems (Points of Entry)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933286694 ISBN 13: 9780933286696

Publisher: Friends of Photography Bookstore, 1995

Photographic images by artists of diverse cultural backgrounds further the understanding of contemporary immigration and the changing face of America in Tracing Cultures.

Themes central to the emerging definitions of multiculturalism are explored by recent photography and photo-related installation art that deals with issues of origin, acculturation, adjustment, displacement, and loss within the context of contemporary American life. Participating artists acknowledge that the melting pot ideal no longer suffices to describe their personal experience of cultural dislocation. Their art directly addresses the history and politics of American immigration in a country now obsessed with and, often fearful of, the notion of multiculturalism.

Artists represented include Albert Chong, Lewis deSoto, Shigeki Ito, Young Kim, Komar and Melamid, Dinh Q. Le, Gavin Lee, Mar�a Martnez-Ca�as, Ruben Ort�z-Torres, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kim Yasuda.

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Published by The Friends of Photography

Distributed by University of New Mexico Press

About the Author:

Andy Grundberg is director of The Friends of Photography in San Francisco and former art critic for The New York Times. Rebecca Solnit is the author of Savage Dreams: Journeys into the Hidden Wars of the American West, and Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era. Ronald Takaki is the chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of six books including Strangers from a Different Shore and A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.

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