Now in paperback, the classic book that defined the multicultural art movement, updated with a new introduction. The New Press is proud to publish a new paperback edition of Mixed Blessings, the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native-, African-, and Asian-American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different media, and filled with incisive quotes and unsettling reports, it is more than a book about art; it is a complex meditation on the relationships of people to their cultures. Lucy R. Lippard, one of our most original and insightful writers on art, challenges conventional approaches and explores the role of images in a changing society. Among her subjects are the uncertainty of exile; the confusion of identity in attempts to climb out of the melting pot; and art that speaks for itself, reversing stereotypes and reclaiming history and memory. The New Press edition features a new introduction by Lippard that reconsiders the issues first presented in Mixed Blessings when it appeared in 1990 and evaluates the state of multicultural art today.
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Attempting to examine how Native, African, Asian and Latino Americans "see themselves and others" and to analyze "the ways cross-cultural activity is reflected in the visual arts," Lippard ( Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory ) has compiled a daunting amount of information about the history, religion and aesthetic traditions of these cultures. But she includes so many artists, working in a wide variety of media, that the reader, inundated, tends to lose sight of her broader themes. In the chapter on cultural mixing, for example, Lippard segues from a discussion on tribalism and ethnocentrism to an appreciation of graffiti as a form of creative expression to a brief history of painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. With this excess of data, there is probably something to pique everyone's interest, but readers will have to sift through to find it. Other topics embrace the relationship between primitivism and popular culture, the link between traditional tribal ceremonies and contemporary performance art, and issues of racism and miscegenation. The photographs provide adequate illustration, but the tangential captions distract the reader even further.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I love this book, in short, and recommend it highly. Lucy Lippard's intellectual devotion to the power of women and persons of color enacted and idealized within their works of visual art has brought her to a level of discourse that is rich in democratic possibility and promise. -- Robert Farris Thompson, author of Face of the Gods : Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas
What a gift! This is more than a book about art. I call it a round dance of cultural concepts, ideas, and meanings that prove what American art is really up to in these last days of the century. -- Joy Harjo, author of A Map to the Next World
What a gift! This is more than a book about art. I call it a round dance of cultural concepts, ideas, and meanings that prove what American art is really up to in these last days of the century. -- Joy Harjo, author of A Map to the Next World
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Brilliant Art Images but Scattered Analysis,
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I used this book as part of a Philosophy of Art class that I teach aimed at sophomores and juniors in college. I chose the book because it is full of fabulous images from multicultural artists, and I thought I would be able to use Lippard's analysis to spark theoretical discussion. The prose in the book, however, is so scattered and so lacking in theoretical bite that I found the book far more frustrating than it was useful. If you are looking for a minor primer in some varieties of multicultural art and are mostly interested in the images, then the book would be great. If you want theoretical analysis, logical organization of ideas, clear and sensible themes, then you had better look elsewhere.
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Excellent text required by Academy of Art University course,
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Covers minority art, lots of colored pictures and artist comments/barriers in representation and discrimination. A must read for all artists.
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