AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART AND ARTISTS The Harlem Renaissance To ask the question: what is African-American art? is to ask what is American art? America is a nation of immigrants. The only “American” culture is that of the Native Americans and, ironically, as...
CHICANO HISTORY AND HERITAGE “We are a Brown People with a Bronze Culture” Part Three In asking the question what is Chicano art, one is inevitably asking another question what is art? Chicano art did not fit into the white Western mainstream definition of...
Norman Rockwell, Part One Although the career of Norman Rockwell, the acclaimed illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, spanned the twentieth century, his mature period of the 1940s and 1950s is the best known. This podcast, the first of three, discusses how this...
CHICANO ARTISTS and POPULAR CULTURE Part Two Chicano Art and Chicano artists are, definitionally, part of a political culture of outsiders, people of color, individuals who were crudely grouped into an inaccurate and racist designation “illegal aliens.”...
CHICANO ARTISTS AS OUTSIDER ARTISTS What separates Chicano art from mainstream art and from the artists of color who have “made it” in the white art world, such as Bryan Kim, is that the Chicano artists did not want to be part of the white mainstream art world. ...
