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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785200503321

Autore

See Sarita Echavez

Titolo

The decolonized eye : Filipino American art and performance / / Sarita Echavez See

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8166-7085-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiv, 210 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

700.9/045

Soggetti

Filipino American arts

Postcolonialism and the arts - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Foreign in a domestic sense -- Staging the sublime. An open wound : Angel Shaw and Manuel Ocampo -- A queer horizon : Paul Pfeiffer's disintegrating figure studies -- Pilipinos are punny, Freud is Filipino. Why Filipinos make pun(s) of one another : the Sikolohiya/psychology of Rex Navarrete's stand-up comedy -- "He will not always say what you would have him say": loss and aural (be)longing in Nicky Paraiso's House/boy -- Conclusion: Reanne Estrada, identity, and the politics of abstraction.

Sommario/riassunto

From the late 1980's to the present, artists of Filipino descent in the United States have produced a challenging and creative movement. In The Decolonized Eye, Sarita Echavez See shows how these artists have engaged with the complex aftermath of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines.Focusing on artists working in New York and California, See examines the overlapping artistic and aesthetic practices and concerns of filmmaker Angel Shaw, painter Manuel Ocampo, installation artist Paul Pfeiffer, comedian Rex Navarrete, performance artist Nicky Paraiso, and sculptor Reanne Estrada to explain the rea