Markets and cultural voices : liberty vs. power in the lives of Mexican Amate painters / Tyler Cowen.

0472098896 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472098897 (cloth ; alk. paper)
047206889X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472068890 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472024124 ebook

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005.

English

x, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

40011559511

F1221.N3 C69 2005

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.

Includes bibliographical references pages (175-181) and index.

Economics, cognition, and society.

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