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Unnamable: The Ends of Asian American Art
Contributor(s): Min, Susette (Author)

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ISBN: 0814764304     ISBN-13: 9780814764305
Publisher: New York University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - Asian American
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Art | History - General
Dewey: 704.039
LCCN: 2016047747
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.90 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
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Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals.

Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its emergence, Susette Min challenges the notion of Asian American art as a site of reconciliation or as a way for marginalized artists to enter into the canon or mainstream art scene. Pressing critically on the politics of visibility and how this categorization reduces artworks by Asian American artists within narrow parameters of interpretation, Unnamable reconceives Asian American art not as a subset of objects, but as a medium that disrupts representations and embedded knowledge. By approaching Asian American art in this way, Min refigures the way we see Asian American art as an oppositional practice, less in terms of its aspirations to be seen--its greater visibility--and more in terms of how it models a different way of seeing and encountering the world.

Uniquely presented, the chapters are organized thematically as mini-exhibitions, and offer readings of select works by contemporary artists including Tehching Hsieh, Byron Kim, Simon Leung, Mary Lum, and Nikki S. Lee. Min displays a curatorial practice and reading method that conceives of these works not as "exemplary" instances of Asian American art, but as engaged in an aesthetic practice that is open-ended. Ultimately, Unnamable insists that in order to reassess Asian American art and its place in art history, we need to let go not only of established viewing practices, but potentially even the category of Asian American art itself.


Contributor Bio(s): Min, Susette: -

Susette Min is Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches Asian American studies, art history, curatorial studies, and cultural studies. She is also an independent curator.


 
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