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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Museum of the Old Colony: An Art Installation by Pablo Delano

The Museum of the Old Colony: An Art Installation by Pablo Delano

Katzman, Laura

Paperback

Caribbean, Latin American & South American Art

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1639442871
ISBN13: 9781639442874
Publisher: Jmu - Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art
Published: Feb 21 2023
Pages: 132
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.39 Width: 8.19 Depth: 10.24
Language: English

The Museum of the Old Colony is an ongoing conceptual art installation by visual artist Pablo Delano (b. 1954) that addresses the complex history of his native Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War (1898), when the Caribbean archipelago was seized by the United States from Spain as a possession. Appropriating archival photographs, film footage, and popular artifacts that Delano collects and curates for his performative museum, the installation provocatively critiques the stereotypes and entrenched misperceptions of Puerto Rico disseminated in mainstream media over a century. The work thus speaks to the relationship between U.S. imperial power and the island-nation, and to the lasting and devastating legacies of colonial rule. With dry wit and sardonic humor, The Museum of the Old Colony equally illuminates the power of images to inculcate cultural values and the authority of museums to confer meaning on the objects that such trusted institutions have acquired and displayed.

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