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Curating at the Edge: Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border (William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemishere) by Kate Bonansinga is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Located less than a mile from Juárez, the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso is a non-collecting institution that serves the Paso del Norte region. In Curating at the Edge , Kate Bonansinga brings to life her experiences as the Rubin's founding director, giving voice to a curatorial approach that reaches far beyond the limited scope of "border art" or Chicano art. Instead, Bonansinga captures the creative climate of 2004–2011, when contemporary art addressed broad notions of destruction and transformation, irony and subversion, gender and identity, and the impact of location on politics. The Rubin's location in the Chihuahuan desert on the U.S./Mexican border is meaningful and intriguing to many artists, and, consequently, Curating at the Edge describes the multiple artistic perspectives conveyed in the place-based exhibitions Bonansinga oversaw. Exciting mid-career artists featured in this collection of case studies include Margarita Cabrera, Liz Cohen, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, and many others. Recalling her experiences in vivid, first-person scenes, Bonansinga reveals the processes a contemporary art curator undertakes and the cha
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kate Bonansinga
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292754430
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Art, Arts
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