New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process
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doaj-40d50434624b4494b1ea5c446e2762912021-08-02T11:01:31ZengKatholieke Universiteit LeuvenImage and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative1780-678X2010-06-01112111122New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive ProcessGuisela Latorre<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Abstract (E)</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">: Scholarly work on Chicana/o art for the past thirty years has privileged the political and social underpinnings that informed much of its production since the late 1960s. While this trend within the scholarship has been quite pertinent to the ideals of the Chicana/o arts movement, this intellectual approach has dominated the field at the expense of visual analyses. As an alternative to the often Eurocentric formal and iconographic analyses common in art history, this paper proposes turning to the cognitive and neural sciences to understand how Chicana artists use the visual emotively to incite a political consciousness in their viewers.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR;" lang="FR">Abstract (F)</span></strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR;" lang="FR">: Les recherches académiques sur l’art des chicanos/as des trente dernières années ont toujours privilégié les bases politiques et sociales qui en sous-tendent la production depuis les années 60. Cette tendance de la recherche a toujours été fort pertinente eu égard des idéaux des mouvements artistiques chicanos/as, mais dans la mesure où elle a favorisé une lecture intellectuelle, elle a aussi provoqué une certaine désaffection pour l’analyse visuelle. Le présent article veut proposer une alternative aux analyses souvent eurocentriques et iconographiques qui dominent toujours l’histoire de l’art pour se tourner en revanche vers les sciences cognitives et neurologiques. Cette nouvelle orientation permet de comprendre comment les artistes chicanas se servent de l’image d’une manière plus émotionnelle dans l’espoir de produire une prise de conscience politique dans l’esprit des spectateurs.</span></span></span></p>http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/80Chicana/o art, Ester Hernández, Alma López, Cognition, Art and Politics |
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Guisela Latorre New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative Chicana/o art, Ester Hernández, Alma López, Cognition, Art and Politics |
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New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process |
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New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process |
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New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process |
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New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process |
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new approaches to chicana/o art: the visual and the political as cognitive process |
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
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Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative |
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1780-678X |
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Abstract (E)</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">: Scholarly work on Chicana/o art for the past thirty years has privileged the political and social underpinnings that informed much of its production since the late 1960s. While this trend within the scholarship has been quite pertinent to the ideals of the Chicana/o arts movement, this intellectual approach has dominated the field at the expense of visual analyses. As an alternative to the often Eurocentric formal and iconographic analyses common in art history, this paper proposes turning to the cognitive and neural sciences to understand how Chicana artists use the visual emotively to incite a political consciousness in their viewers.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR;" lang="FR">Abstract (F)</span></strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR;" lang="FR">: Les recherches académiques sur l’art des chicanos/as des trente dernières années ont toujours privilégié les bases politiques et sociales qui en sous-tendent la production depuis les années 60. Cette tendance de la recherche a toujours été fort pertinente eu égard des idéaux des mouvements artistiques chicanos/as, mais dans la mesure où elle a favorisé une lecture intellectuelle, elle a aussi provoqué une certaine désaffection pour l’analyse visuelle. Le présent article veut proposer une alternative aux analyses souvent eurocentriques et iconographiques qui dominent toujours l’histoire de l’art pour se tourner en revanche vers les sciences cognitives et neurologiques. Cette nouvelle orientation permet de comprendre comment les artistes chicanas se servent de l’image d’une manière plus émotionnelle dans l’espoir de produire une prise de conscience politique dans l’esprit des spectateurs.</span></span></span></p> |
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Chicana/o art, Ester Hernández, Alma López, Cognition, Art and Politics |
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