Part I.A conversation on border landscapes through time / Samuel Truett and Maribel Alvarez -- Monuments, photographs, and maps: visualizing the U.S.-Mexico border in the 1890's / Katherine G. Morrissey -- Fencing the line: race, environment, and the changing visual landscape at the U.S.-Mexico divide / Mary E. Mendoza -- Open border: the national press and the promotion of transnational commerce, 1940-1965 / Geraldo Lujan Cadava -- Part II. A conversation on border art and space / Samelia Malagamba-Ansotegui and Sarah J. Moore -- Stealth crossings: performance art and games of power on the militarized border / Ila N. Sheren -- How the border wall became a canvas: political art in the U.S.-Mexico border towns of Ambos Nogales / Margaret Regan -- Visible frictions: the border film project and self-representation in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Rebecca M. Schreiber -- A border art history of the vanishing present: land use and representation / John-Michael H. Warner
Summary:
Grounded in the borderlands and prompted by art, this book considers the connections between art, land, and people in a fraught binational region--Provided by publisher.
