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Tag: Art

Fuentes, Carlos “On Mexican Time” A New Time for Mexico (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1996)

Sun, solitude, soil. I remember a great lecture by Gaos in which he spoke of art as truth transformed by … More

Art, Carlos Fuentes, earth, Gaos, History, land, Narrative, pluralism, roots, Truth, world

Ehrlich, Gretel, “On Water”, “The Solace of Open Spaces” (Viking 1985)

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid … More

Art, dry spells, Gretel Ehrlich, Nature, place, the west, water

Yau, John “Please Wait by the Coatroom”, “Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures” (The New Museum of Contemporary Art 1990)

For Lam to have achieved the status of unique individual, he would have had to successfully adapt to the conditions … More

Art, Critical Theory, Culture, ethnicity, Identity, John Yau, Mixed Race, race, Wilfredo Lam

Gish Jen on Tiger Writing

For this spring’s Argument & Research composition course with the specialized theme “Citizens of the World” your salonniere will be … More

Art, Asian culture, Chinese, Culture, East/West paradigm, Gish Jen, interdependent self

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