Visualizing Chinese Americans: An (Auto)Ethnography of Making Meanings through Art as a Chinese American
Pingting Tu
Art Market Studies
About this Item
- Title
- Visualizing Chinese Americans: An (Auto)Ethnography of Making Meanings through Art as a Chinese American
- Contributor Names
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Tu, Pingting (Author)
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Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Art Market Studies (Degree granting institution)
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Tombro, Melissa (Thesis advisor)
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Degen, Natasha (Thesis advisor)
- Date
- 2022
- Degree Information
- M.A. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York 2022.
- Department: Art Market Studies.
- Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08.
- Advisors: Tombro, Melissa; Degen, Natasha.
- Committee members: Melton, Paul; Carlson, Brooke.
- Abstract
- Despite more than a century of living unequally to the rest of the country, most Chinese immigrants have chosen America as their diasporic home. While Chinese Americans have been a part of the making of America as a country for more than two centuries, America has not been telling the full story about Chinese Americans and their experiences in the land of dreams. In my essay, I am using my personal experiences as a Chinese American as the launchpad of the research. I draw on a combination of historical and theoretical research to analyze Chinese identities in American society and the evolution of Chinese and Chinese American art and how it is situated in the American art scene. I aim to discuss the contemporary Chinese American experience through an autoethnographic lens using three Chinese American artists at different stages of their careers: experienced, mid-career, and emerging. I used interviews and field studies to learn about these artists. Through this paper, I study how they settle and fit in the contemporary art world to understand their perspectives on topics like success and tradition related to being Chinese American and how this identity migrates into their artworks. Whereas Chinese Americans have been largely portrayed as victims of the American historical narrative, though it is not untrue, I attempt to tell the stories of little ordinary triumphs achieved by Chinese Americans, including myself to reshape the perception of us and celebrate us as "dreamers", "doers", and "achievers".
- Subject
- Art
- History
- Asian Americans--Study and teaching
- Art--Study and teaching
- Asian Americans
- Autoethnography
- Chinese Americans
- Art, Modern
- Ethnography
- Rights
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- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: etd_000912
- pqdiss: 30246510
- ISBN: 9798371972088
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
Citation
Tu, P. (2022). Visualizing Chinese Americans: An (Auto)Ethnography of Making Meanings through Art as a Chinese American [Master's thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York]. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28908
Tu, Pingting. Visualizing Chinese Americans: An (Auto)Ethnography of Making Meanings Through Art As a Chinese American. 2022. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Master's thesis. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28908
Tu, Pingting. "Visualizing Chinese Americans: An (Auto)Ethnography of Making Meanings Through Art As a Chinese American." Master's thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, 2022. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28908