Chicana/o Art Collectors
Chicana/o Art Collectors
Critical Witness to Invisibility and Emplacement
This chapter analyzes the work of Chicana/o art collectors not as individuals consumed by idiosyncratic obsessions but as a collective of critical witnesses who challenge historical and aesthetic amnesia. Chicana/o art collectors acquire and preserve the cultural patrimony of Chicana/o communities, broadly defined, and thus construct a sense of place for these imagined communities. Rejecting the conventional view that collectors are narcissists, the chapter explores how collectors who are racialized as nonwhite offer new ideas about cultural production and how these sites and practices of collecting embody the public emplacement of Chicana/o art.
Keywords: private collector, critical witness, emplacement, art collecting, identity, community, collecting, cultural production
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