Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler's book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the divide between the affluent wealthy and their usually invisible domestic help-the nannies, gardeners, housecleaners, and others who make their lifestyles possible-by inserting images of these workers into sly pastiches of iconic David Hockney paintings, subtly doctoring glossy magazine ads, and subversively slotting life-size painted cardboard cutouts into real-life situations. Domestic Scenes engages with Gomez and his work, offering an inspiring vision of the purposes and possibilities of art.



Autorentext

LA-born Lawrence Weschler is the award-winning author of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (about Robert Irwin), True to Life (about David Hockney), Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders, and Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, among many others. He lives in New York City.

Titel
Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez
Illustrator
EAN
9781613129937
ISBN
978-1-61312-993-7
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
12.04.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
29.66 MB
Anzahl Seiten
128
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch