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Subject to Display Author: Jennifer A. Gonzalez

ISBN: 9780262516020 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 320 Published: 10 February 2011 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 15.9 x 1.9 Description:

Over the past two decades, artists James Luna, Fred Wilson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pep¢n Osorio, and Rene Green have had a profound impact on the meaning and practice of installation art in the United States. In Subject to Display, Jennifer Gonz lez offers the first sustained analysis of their contribution, linking the history and legacy of race discourse to innovations in contemporary art. Race, writes Gonz lez, is a social discourse that has a visual history. The collection and display of bodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present. The five American installation artists who are the protagonists of this study have all explored the practice of putting human subjects and their cultures on display by staging elaborate dioramas or site-specific interventions in galleries and museums, creating powerful social commentary of the politics of space...

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