In the program, The State of Things, Professor Esther Gabara was interviewed by Frank Stasio on WUNC on February 19th for the "Pop América, 1965-1975" exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art. The exhibit will be at the Nasher from February 21st-July 21st.
In the interview, Gabara and Stasio discussed the pop art phenomenon and the many significant contributions to the art form from Latin American artists, it's emergence during a turbulent time in history around the globe, and pop art as a crucial movement for the entire American continent. "What we think about as American is really such a fascinating question and in this decade and in the arts in general, the United States certainly had an international profile, but what I was interested in looking at was the broad number of approaches to the idea of America that artists were so involved in in this decade. It was a decade of close and often tense relationships across the hemisphere as well. And so what we see in the exhibit is how artists were in conversation and in debates and inserted their art into those converstaions and debates in very concrete ways." Esther Gabara
Art (Raúl Martínez, El vaquero (Cowboy), c. 1969)
"Pop América, 1965-1975" also featured:
The revolutionary art in ‘Pop America’ exhibit helps define what ‘America’ looks like, The News & Observer
Nasher's Dazzling Exhibit on Latin American Pop Art Attract a Latin American Leader, Duke Today
When Latino Artists Went Pop, Duke Today
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