Markets and cultural voices : liberty vs. power in the lives of Mexican Amate painters / Tyler Cowen.
Cowen, Tyler.
2005
F1221.N3 C69 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Markets and cultural voices : liberty vs. power in the lives of Mexican Amate painters / Tyler Cowen.
Author Cowen, Tyler.
ISBN 0472098896 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472098897 (cloth ; alk. paper)
047206889X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472068890 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472024124 ebook
Publication Details Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005.
Language English
Description x, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Item Number 40011559511
Call Number F1221.N3 C69 2005
Summary This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product is sold almost exclusively to wealthy American art buyers. Cowen examines this cultural interaction between Mexico and the United States to see how globalization shapes the lives and the work of the artists and their families. The story of these three artists reveals that this exchange simultaneously creates economic opportunities for the artists, but has detrimental effects on the village. A view of the daily village life of three artists connected to the larger art world, this book should be of particular interest to those in the fields of cultural economics, Latino studies, economic anthropology and globalization.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references pages (175-181) and index.
Series Economics, cognition, and society.
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