Luis Gispert: Loud Image - Softcover

Tejada, Roberto J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944722288 ISBN 13: 9780944722282

Publisher: Hood Museum of Art, 2004

Synopsis

Luis Gispert is a young contemporary artist born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and raised primarily in Miami. He trained first at Miami-Dade Community College and then at the Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University. Today Gispert lives and works in Brooklyn. His earliest creative recognition was tied to his participation in a group of young South Florida-based artists whochallenged the reigning paradigms of Latino/a representation in that region. Gispert's vividly colored photographs and booming sound sculptures have since been shown widely throughout the United States as well as in Europe, South America, and the Middle East. The multimedia installation he created for the 2002 Whitney Biennial was one of the most critically acclaimed elements of that exhibition, and his work has become a virtual mainstay in recent surveys of contemporary art practices.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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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hood Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944722288
• ISBN 13: 9780944722282
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 55