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Unnamable - The Ends of Asian American Art (Paperback)
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Unnamable - The Ends of Asian American Art (Paperback)
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Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it
from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting
its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its
emergence, Susette Min challenges the notion of Asian American art
as a site of reconciliation or as a way for marginalized artists to
enter into the canon or mainstream art scene. Pressing critically
on the politics of visibility and how this categorization reduces
artworks by Asian American artists within narrow parameters of
interpretation, Unnamable reconceives Asian American art not as a
subset of objects, but as a medium that disrupts representations
and embedded knowledge. By approaching Asian American art in this
way, Min refigures the way we see Asian American art as an
oppositional practice, less in terms of its aspirations to be
seen-its greater visibility-and more in terms of how it models a
different way of seeing and encountering the world. Uniquely
presented, the chapters are organized thematically as
mini-exhibitions, and offer readings of select works by
contemporary artists including Tehching Hsieh, Byron Kim, Simon
Leung, Mary Lum, and Nikki S. Lee. Min displays a curatorial
practice and reading method that conceives of these works not as
"exemplary" instances of Asian American art, but as engaged in an
aesthetic practice that is open-ended. Ultimately, Unnamable
insists that in order to reassess Asian American art and its place
in art history, we need to let go not only of established viewing
practices, but potentially even the category of Asian American art
itself.
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