Visual Art Resources

 

Cahan, S., & Kocur, Z. (Eds.). (1996). Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education. New York:Routledge. Includes essays by educators and artists on using the arts to address issues of race, class, and gender equity in the school system. Also provides reproductions of contemporary, multicultural art works and ideas for incorporating them into the general curriculum, as well as a thorough annotated bibliography.

The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s. (1990). New York: Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum, & The Studio Museum in Harlem. An exhibition catalog of a multiethnic art exhibit. Includes essays by artists and critics.

 

 

 

The Mind's I. (1987). New York: Asian American Arts Centre. An Exhibition catalog of the work of fourteen artists of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, whose work addresses issues of gender, ethnicity and cultural identity in the modern world.

The Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic. (1990). Winston-Salem, NC: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Includes biographies, essays and reproductions of the work of twenty-one African American artists.

Uncommon Ground: 23 Latin American Artists. (1992). New York: College Art Gallery. This collection of work by Latin American artists who live and work in different parts of the United States, focuses on misconceptions of "otherness" or "fantastic" often associated with Latin American art.