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Informationen zum Autor E. Carmen Ramos joined the Smithsonian American Art Museum staff as curator of Latino art in October 2010. Ramos is responsible for acquiring artworks for the museum's permanent collection and producing a major exhibition and catalog based on the museum's Latino holdings. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Latino, Latin American, and African American art.Ramos is organizing Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, which opens at the museum Oct. 25, 2013. Previous projects include BLACKOUT: A Centennial Commission by Paul Henry Ramirez(2010), a site-specific exhibition at The Newark Museum and Cut, Build and Weld: Process in Works by Chakaia Booker(2010) at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit. She co-curated the fifth biennial at El Museo del Barrio in New York City in 2007 and also has organized exhibitions about Mexican popular arts (2007) and works by artists Franco Mondini-Ruiz (2007) and Freddy Rodríguez (2005). Before joining the museum's staff, Ramos was the curator of exhibitions for the Arts Council of Princeton at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts and assistant curator for cultural engagement at The Newark Museum. Klappentext Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture. Zusammenfassung Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art! history and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Elizabeth BrounAcknowledgementsIntroduction - PRIMEROS PASOS:FIRST STEPS TOWARD AN OPERATIVE CONSTRUCT OF LATINO ART by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto WHAT IS LATINO ABOUT AMERICAN ART? by E. Carmen RamosCOMMENTARIES ON THE ARTWORKS by E. Carmen Ramos, with Jennifer L. Bauman,Florencia Bazzano-Nelson, and Virginia M. MecklenburgCHECKLIST OF THE EXHIBITIONSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYIMAGE CREDITSINDEX