Kearny Street Workshop

Asian American Aesthetics

March 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

There isn’t an Asian American aesthetic in contemporary art. There are lots of Asian American artists, but there is no singular, unitary guiding principle for how the art those artists make ought to look, never mind what its subjects should be….

In the 1990s, the assumption that minority artists ought to make their specific social, political and cultural status the subject of their work thankfully began to fall apart. This exhibition shows it’s just one possibility. That’s progress.

—From Christopher Knight’s review of One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, “Artists are united by their differences,” Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, March 11, 2008

Categories: activist imagination

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