Gender Representation and the Curation of Chicano Visions
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SummaryThe Chicano Art Movement began in part as an effort on the part of Chicanos to take agency in their own representation. Before the Movement, most available representation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans cast them in a negative light — often as servile or violent (Davalos 3). It is arguable whether this has changed, but the Movement has allowed Chicanas and Chicanos to offer alternative representations of themselves. However, to convey these new representations to the mainstream — to get them past the “cultural gatekeepers” Luis Camnitzer points out — the Movement has turned to mainstream museums (Alba 21). This has presented a set of complications inherent to exhibition practices. In the case of Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, an exhibition curated mostly from the private collection of Cheech and Patti Marin, these complications become particularly problematic.
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- The art of Chicano Visions - selected primarily from Cheech Marin's private collection.
- Among those is one painting by Ester Hernández - far more eminent figure in the Chicano Art Movement.
- One mythical icon that many Chicanas have chosen to revisit is La Llorona.
- No collaborative efforts were established with scholars except to write descriptive essays for the book.
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