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This chapter documents the influence of Europe and Asia on Chicana/o artists who traveled abroad. It examines the travels of eleven artists and finds that their international journeys influenced their style, composition, and use of color. Europe also taught some artists, such as David Botello and Leo Limón, to invest in public art and art for the people before this orientation was articulated as a platform of the Chicano movement. By taking up a topic long dismissed by scholars, critics, and curators, the chapter offers new insights about Chicana/o art and proposes new methodologies that reject the essentialist tendencies of normative art history and other disciplines that prescribe and presume the biographies of artists of color. The chapter closes with a discussion of the politics of visibility and the challenge of tracing the influence of European aesthetic traditions on marginalized artists without reinforcing the myth of assimilation.

Author

Karen Mary Davalos

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479877966

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Art, Humanities