Home--so different, so appealing / Chon A. Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Pilar Tompkins Rivas.

Home signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home has been a little noted, although prevalent, feature in art since the 1950s, a period in which artists ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Organizer, Host institution, Publisher)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Organizer, Host institution, Publisher)
University of California, Los Angeles. Chicano Studies Research Center. Press (Publisher)
Other Authors: Noriega, Chon A., 1961-
Ramírez, Mari Carmen, 1955-
Tompkins Rivas, Pilar
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, California : Houston, Texas : UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [2017]
Subjects:
Home in art > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Home in art > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Hispanic American art > Themes, motives > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Hispanic American art > Themes, motives > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Art, Latin American > Themes, motives > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art, Latin American > Themes, motives > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Art, Latin American > Themes, motives.
Hispanic American art > Themes, motives.
Home in art.
1900-2099
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 31 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • To dwell on this matrix of places / Chon A. Noriega
  • Political agency and/or strategies of autoconstrucción? : a critical approach to "home" in the Americas / Mari Carmen Ramirez
  • Establishing and destabilizing notions of home in the Americas / Pilar Tompkins Rivas
  • Model homes
  • Archaeology of home
  • Mapping home
  • Recycled homes
  • Home as form
  • Embodied home
  • Troubled homeland
  • Going home.