[PDF] Art In The Lives Of Immigrant Communities In The United States eBook

Author : Paul DiMaggio
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813547571

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Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.

Author : Paul DiMaggio
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813550416

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Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.

Author : Eva Respini
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300247486

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Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to migration and its representation in 21st-century art, offering diverse points of entry into this massive phenomenon and its many manifestations. The featured artworks range from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, video, and sound art, and their makers--including Isaac Julien, Richard Mosse, Reena Saini Kallat, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Do Ho Suh, among many others--hail from around the world. Texts by experts in political science, Latin American studies, and human rights, as well as contemporary art, expand upon the political, economic, and social contexts of migration and its representation. The book also includes three conversations in which artists discuss the complexity of making work about migration. Amid worldwide tensions surrounding refugee crises and border security, this publication provides a nuanced interpretation of the current cultural moment. Intertwining themes of memory, home, activism, and more, When Home Won't Let You Stay meditates on how art both shapes and is shaped by the public discourse on migration.

Author : Diana Jocelyn Greenwold
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2016
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ISBN :

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This dissertation explores the creation and exhibition of immigrant-made art in American settlement houses in New York and Boston from 1900 to 1945. The lace, embroidery, and ceramics Southern and Eastern European immigrant artists created provide an important avenue to illustrate how European traditions survived, changed, or disappeared, and how Jewish and Italian communities in New York and Boston adapted to new circumstances while maintaining distinct identities. This dissertation proposes that art can help reveal what is gained and what is lost when communities uproot and settle far from their homelands: an issue as relevant for turn-of-the-century immigrants as it is for emigrant groups arriving in the United States and countries across the world today. The two object sets that are examined closely--ceramics from Boston's Paul Revere Pottery and textiles from New York's Scuola d'Industrie Italiane--reveal the working and living patterns of first and second-generation Jewish and Italian women as they interacted with middle and upper class settlement house reformers, collectors, and museum professionals to negotiate their place in American social and political life. Beginning in the late nineteenth-century, college-educated men and women founded settlement houses in rapidly expanding urban immigrant neighborhoods. They initiated programs designed to help newly arriving Southern and Eastern Europeans adapt to American urban life. By 1900, there were over one hundred settlement houses across the United States peopled by progressive reformers eager to address the perceived moral and social problems of poor tenement neighborhoods. The history of settlement house efforts to alter basic living and working conditions ¬is well documented, as are the lives of many of the most influential reformers such as Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull-House. However, historians have yet to adequately address the pivotal role of art production in settlement house reform efforts or to underscore the role immigrant practitioners played in the fashioning of their own identities through artistic practice. The first section of this dissertation focuses on the work of young Italian and Jewish women who decorated ceramics at the Paul Revere Pottery. The workshop's glazed earthenware dishes, mugs, and tiles decorated with images of American historical events and agrarian scenes are emblematic of a larger impulse to adapt workers to American taste through the language of the colonial revival. The young Jewish and Italian painters of the Pottery specialized in designs depicting scenes of flora and fauna native to New England and suggestive of the city's colonial history. Designers hoped such iconography would teach newly arrived immigrants about their new nation's values. The Pottery fostered women who made careers for themselves as artists and librarians while cementing their role as the rightful heirs to the North End's historic structures and its Revolutionary history. The second section explores textiles created at the Scuola d'Industrie Italiane in New York's Richmond Hill settlement house and reveals how immigrant-made lace and embroidery represent a negotiated identity for the young Italian women who created them. At the Scuola, founders worked to preserve Italian lacemaking traditions while providing Italian women with alternatives to factory labor. Founders Gino Speranza and Florence Colgate worked to preserve Italian lacemaking traditions by creating a school based on Italian revival lace workshops that the pair visited while travelling in Italy. The nineteenth-century Italian revival of lacemaking and its importation to the United States represents a particular understanding of heritage filtered through the lens of settlement house reformers. The Scuola's heyday also coincides with the tremendous vogue among upper class American collectors for Antique European lace. The Scuola's objects are based on highly coveted antique fragments re-conjured in altered forms to appeal to American tastes. As first and second-generation immigrants, the women of the workshop well understood their roles as skilled craftswomen and representatives of an old-world practice. These needlewomen used their positions to cement roles in the social and economic forums of their city. This dissertation augments previous examinations by turning not only to early twentieth-century reformers and art patrons, but by exploring the social and economic world of immigrant craftswomen and how their practices intersected in unexpected ways with collectors and connoisseurs in Boston and New York. While the voices of individual practitioners in cooperative workshops are often difficult to unearth, this project proposes new ways to read the work of settlement house artisans as vital clues to document their lives. The study addresses settlement houses as negotiated spaces and the objects produced there as vital means to support and enhance immigrant communities while furthering the interests of various constituencies. The cases in question reframe the Arts and Crafts movement as a trans-Atlantic venture that linked more than just America and Britain. These settlement house craft workshops connected disparate countries and social spheres in networks of cultural exchange and shared influence.

Author : Robert Ernst
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815602903

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This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanization of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the effects produced by church, school, foreign-language press and libraries - the methods by which the Democratic Party enlisted the immigrant vote.

Author : Amanda
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2021-08-21
Category :
ISBN : 9780578941714

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This book weaves together narratives and images created by community members to document the lived experiences of immigration in the Southern California Inland Empire region. It was born of a community arts and action collaboration with the explicit aim to the usethe arts as cultural strategy for community building, listening, and transformation. The themes that emerged through this project (health, home, family, work, and immigration detention) highlight not only the experiences of the community artists, but also mirror the community organizing campaigns advanced by the organizations that have sponsored this project (Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective, Bringing Theory to Practice, and Critical Action + Social Advocacy, Pitzer College). This compilation was created throughout 2020, a year consumed by the triple pandemics of COVID-19, racial violence and economic instability, making the issues explored in this book all the more urgent. To create a just future- one where respect, dignity, belonging, safety, and human rights are recognized for all, not privileges for a few- we must first be able to imagine what that world looks, feels, and sounds like. Utilizing our radical imaginations through the arts moves us from idea to action, from dream to blueprint. Through our photos, our storytelling, we share our challenges and our wounds, as well as our hopes and the places where we plan the possibilities for our futures. We believe this strategy of art-making-as-social-change will someday translate our freedom dreams of a world beyond borders and bars into reality. With this book, we hope readers will be inspired to join us in shifting beliefs and policies that limit our full humanity and rights, while advocating for ones that celebrate our diverse experiences and contributions.

Author : Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher : Giles
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture.

Author : Adam Furgang
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766092453

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The United States has often been described as a melting pot, and many people who have immigrated to the U.S. from other countries in search of the American dream have contributed not just their cultural histories and traditions, but their artistic spirit as well. This book covers important immigrant artists such as the naturalist painter John James Audubon, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster, multimedia artist Yoko Ono, cartoonist Art Spiegelman, and the street artist Thierry Guetta (Mr. Brainwash). Immigrant artists have collectively helped to make America great through their tremendous impact on the visual arts.

Author : Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1479810460

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Illustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging Young immigrant children often do not have the words to express how their lives are shaped by issues of immigration, legal status, and state-sanctioned violence. Yet they are able to communicate its effects on them using art. Based on ten years of work with immigrant children as young as six years old in Arizona and California— and featuring an analysis of three hundred drawings, theater performances, and family interviews—Silvia Rodriguez Vega provides accounts of children’s challenges with deportation and family separation during the Obama and Trump administrations. While much of the literature on immigrant children depicts them as passive, when viewed through this lens they appear as agents of their own stories. The volume provides key insights into how immigrant children in both states presented creative, out-of-the-box, powerful solutions to the dilemmas that anti-immigrant rhetoric and harsh immigration laws present. Through art, they demonstrated a righteous indignation against societal violence, dehumanization, and death as a tool for navigating a racist, anti-immigrant society. When children are the agents of their own stories, they can reimagine destructive situations in ways that adults sometimes cannot, offering us alternatives and hope for a better future. At once devastating and revelatory, Drawing Deportation provides a roadmap for how art can provide a safe and necessary space for vulnerable populations to assert their humanity in a world that would rather divest them of it.

Author : Carol Damian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1538128535

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Art meets today’s political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe’s retablos. This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the creative gaze of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jiménez Quispe, a recent immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized maker of retablos, Jiménez is creating work that powerfully encapsulates the struggles, possibilities, and tragedies of immigration from the Global South to North America. A decorative box with figures in the interior, the retablo in the Andes became a sort of magical-religious box designed to increase fertility among the herds owned by the local peasant population. These boxes served as a means of exchange in a cash-free, rural environment. Now reimagined by Jiménez, the retablo offers compelling insights into the bitter immigration disputes dividing our nation.