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Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art

Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art

Yau, John

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryAsian American StudiesIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $28.95

ISBN10: 1574232614
ISBN13: 9781574232615
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Published: Jun 27 2023
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER

Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity.


This first collection by award-winning author John Yau, drawn from decades of work, includes essays about Black, Asian, Latinx, and Native American artists: sculptors Luis Jimenez and Ruth Asawa; second generation Abstract Expressionists such as the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter Matsumi Kanemitsu; the performance artists James Luna and Patty Chang; the photographers Laurel Nakadate and Teju Cole; and a generation of Asian American artists that has emerged during the last decade.

While identity is at the fore in this collection, Yau's essays also propose the need for an expansive view of identity, as in the essay On Reconsidering Identity, which explores the writings of Lydia Cabrera and Edouard Glissant, and the possibilities of creolisation versus the reductiveness of Aime Cesaire's Negritude.

Please Wait by the Coat Room is for serious readers interested in the art and artists of color that many mainstream institutions and critics misrepresented or overlooked. It presents a view guided by the artists' desire for autonomy and freedom in a culture that has deemed them undesirable or invisible.

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