Title
Looking High and Low: Art and Cultural Identity,Used
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Can lowriders rightfully be considered art? Why are Chicano murals considered art while graffiti is considered vandalism? What do Native American artisans think about the popular display of their ceremonial objects? How do the "middlebrow" notions of Getty workers influence "highbrow" values at the J. Paul Getty Trust? Looking High and Low attempts to answer these questionsand the broader question "What is art?"by bringing together a collection of challenging essays on the meaning of art in cultural context and on the ways that our understandings of art have been influenced by social process and aesthetic values.Arguing that art is constituted across cultural boundaries rather than merely inside them, the contributors explore the relations between art, cultural identity, and the social languages of evaluationamong artists, art critics, art institutions, and their audiencesin the Southwest and in Mexico. The authors use anthropological methods in art communities to uncover compelling evidence of how marginalized populations make meaning for themselves, how images of ethnicity function in commercial culture, how Native populations must negotiate sentimental marketing and institutional appropriation of their art work, and how elite populations use culture and ritual in ways that both reveal and obscure their power and status. The authors make dramatic revelations concerning the construction and contestation of ideas of art as they circulate between groups where notions of what art "should" be are often at odds with each other.This volume challenges conventional modes of analyzing art. Its ethnographic explorations illuminate the importance of art as a cultural force while creating a greater awareness of the roles that scholars, museum curators, and critics play in the evaluation of art.ContentsIntroduction: Art Hierarchies, Cultural Boundaries, and Reflexive Analysis, Brenda Jo BrightBellas Artes and Artes Populares: The Implications of Difference in the Mexico City Art World, Liza BakewellSpace, Power, and Youth Culture: Mexican American Graffiti and Chicano Murals in East Los Angeles, 19721978, Marcos SanchezTranquilinoRemappings: Los Angeles Low Riders, Brenda Jo BrightMarketing Maria: The Tribal Artist in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Barbara BabcockAesthetics and Politics: Zuni War God Repatriation and Kachina Representation, Barbara TedlockMiddlebrow into Highbrow at the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, George E. Marcus
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