Description
The West Multiplied: Art of the American West at the Tucson Museum of Art explores Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block’s (TMA) Art of the American West collection through a place-based understanding of the genre that centers the Sonoran Desert and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, expanding past ideologies of westward expansion and settler colonialism. This publication highlights the ways in which TMA’s permanent collection is most impactful at its intersections—that is when Art of the American West and Indigenous Arts dialogue with Modern and Contemporary Art and Art of Latin America.
This multi-authored publication—an investigation grounded in conversation with community members—explores a balance between tradition with the expansive modes of creation that reflect our unique place. Divided into three sections, contributions trace the evolution of art of the American West, highlight intersectional perspectives, center contemporary artists’ investigations of the region alongside TMA’s collecting practices, explore place-based understandings of art, and expand the material possibilities to challenge traditional hierarchies and reframe Western mythology. Contributions reveal a trajectory toward explorations that foreground cultural complexity, resilience, and lived experience.
- Published by Tucson Museum of Art & Historic Block
- Paperback
- 117 pages
- English
- Price includes domestic media rate shipping
