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. ...
Native American Art and Contemporary Issues The famous IAIA, the Institute of American Indian Art, was founded in 1962 as a counterweight to the Santa Fe School and its artificial construction of “Indian art.” In contrast to those who preserve ancient...
NATIVE AMERICAN ART AND ARTISTS The “art world”—based in New York—was defined by exclusion: the exclusion of women, people of color, and certain kinds of art making. “Craft” is not considered “fine art,” and it is interesting to note that craft is often...
POSTMODERNISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY Photography became the postmodern art form par excellence, taking the place of painting when the Modernist precepts of European art became exhausted by the 1960s. Unlike painting, photography did not have to grapple with and overcome a...
DOUBLE CODING IN PAINTING The Return of the Repressed In the 1980s, painting, once declared “dead,” long, the repressed Other of Conceptual Art, “returned.” The “return” of painting could not have happened without the supposed death of the avant-garde and the...
The Postmodern Condition and the International Art Market Neo-Expressionism was an international style and Postmodern painting was big money. Big painting had returned and the buyers had the big money to pay for it. Art collecting in the 1980s was nothing less than...
