From the Publisher
9 x 9'' trim. 20 color illus.
About the Author
ROBERTO TEJADA is a visual arts critic, photography historian, and curator. Currently assistant professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, Tejada received his BA from New York University and his MA and PhD from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He has taught in the Philosophy and Literature Faculty at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); in the Art Department at the State University of New York, Buffalo; and in the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies program at Dartmouth College where he was the Cesar E. Chavez Fellow (2002-2003). Tejada has also guest lectured and served as a consultant at various art institutions and universities throughout Latin America and the United States. DERRICK R. CARTWRIGHT is Director of the Hood Musuem of Art, Dartmouth College. DONALD E. PEASE is Professor of English and Avalon Chair of the Humanities at Dartmouth College.
Luis Gispert/Loud Image FROM THE PUBLISHER
Luis Gispert's work cannily explores and confronts familiar aspects of youth culture, art history, hip-hop music, and, most recently, the artist's own Cuban American background. His large-scale photographs, mounted on their glossy supports, feature ethnically diverse groups of cheerleaders enacting poses that are variously derived from canonical art history - for example, the Renaissance period (Antonio Pollaiuolo) or the Conceptual art movement (Bruce Nauman) - global religions, or popular culture. Luis Gispert: Loud Image represents a profound critique of various dominant cultures and subcultures in contemporary American life, including issues of ethnicity, youth, power, and beauty.
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