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

• Autore: See Sarita Echavez
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 210 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 700.9/045
• Soggetto topico: Filipino American arts; Postcolonialism and the arts - United States
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Filipino American art and performance
• Titolo autorizzato: The decolonized eye
• ISBN: 0-8166-7085-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785200503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II