Moctezuma's Table: Rolando Briseño's Mexican and Chicano Tablescapes Volume 17 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781603441834)

The table provides the food that sustains physical life. It is also the setting for people to share the fellowship that sustains cultural, community, and political life.In the vision of artist Rolando Briseño, food is a powerful metaphor, a way of understanding how culture nurtures the spirit. When cultures collide-as they inevitably do in borderlands settings-food, its preparation, and the rituals surrounding its consumption can preserve meanings and understandings that might otherwise have been lost to the mainstream social narrative.Briseño's exhibit, La Mesa de Moctezuma/Moctezuma's Table, originally hosted by San Antonio's Instituto Cultural Mexicano and later by the Instituto de México, Montreal, Canada, brings to vivid life the artist's conception of food as life source, social symbol, and embodiment of meaning.Now, editor Norma E. Cantú has gathered the art, along with the words of fifteen poets, writers, artists, and scholars who reflect in various ways on the layers of interpretation to be derived from Briseño's works. Their thoughts provide focal points for musings about food, transborder relationships between food and art, personal connections to food, individual works within the exhibit, and the intense and immediate connections among culture, food, and self.

Author: Norma E. Cantú
ISBN-10: 1603441832
ISBN-13: 9781603441834
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2010
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.91lbs
Size: 10.20h x 9.70w x 1.00d