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Please Wait by the Coat Room: Essays on Art, Race, And Culture

By (author) John Yau

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AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity. This first collection by award-winning author John Yau, drawn from decades of work, includes essays about Black, Asian, Latinx, and Native American artists: sculptors Luis Jimenez and Ruth Asawa; ""second generation Abstract Expressionists"" such as the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter Matsumi Kanemitsu; the performance artists James Luna and Patty Chang; the photographers Laurel Nakadate and Teju Cole; and a generation of Asian American artists that has emerged during the last decade. While identity is at the fore in this collection, Yau's essays also propose the need for an expansive view of identity, as in the essay ""On Reconsidering Identity,"" which explores the writings of Lydia Cabrera and Edouard Glissant, and the possibilities of creolisation versus the reductiveness of Aime Cesaire's Negritude. Please Wait by the Coat Room is for serious readers interested in the art and artists of color that many mainstream institutions and critics misrepresented or overlooked. It presents a view guided by the artists' desire for autonomy and freedom in a culture that has deemed them undesirable or invisible.

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Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Published date | 27 Jun 2023
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 248
Dimensions | 203 x 133 x 19mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-5742-3261-5
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BISAC | art / criticism


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