"Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, September 16, 2017/February 10, 2018. The exhibition is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty."--title page verso
AAPG copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
Contents:
Foreword / Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Chon A. Noriega -- Introduction / Rebecca Epstein -- Take me to the river: the photography Laura Aguilar / Sybil Venegas -- Tempering of an artist / Mei Valenzuela -- Laura and me: a lasting friendship / Christopher A. Velasco -- Beyond face value: reconsidering Laura Aguilar's Three eagles flying / Deborah Cullen -- Clothed/Unclothed: Laura Aguilar's radical vulnerability / Amelia Jones -- The Plush pony series: an untold story of hope and despair / James Estrella -- Daring to be more honest: Laura Aguilar's video testimonios / Tracy M. Zuniga -- Social intelligibility and the in/visible body: Laura Aguilar's self-portraits / Stefanie Snider -- Mestiza cultural memory: the self-ecologies of Laura Aguilar / Macarena Gómez-Barris
Summary:
Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell surveys the career of Laura Aguilar, a Chicana photographer who is most widely known for black-and-white nude self-portraits that are frank and self-assertive, yet deeply sensitive and poetic. In photographs that are frequently political as well as personal, Aguilar offers candid portrayals of herself, her friends and family, and her Chicano/Latino and LBGT communities. Ten essays trace the development of Aguilar's work over three decades, exploring her photography in terms of its social, historical, and art historical contexts. This catalog accompanies Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, a retrospective at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College. The exhibition is a collaboration between the museum and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, which houses the Laura Aguilar Collection of the artist's papers and photographs. -- Amazon.com
