Aesthetic Inheritance
Surviving the Model Minority Myth in Asian American Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22346758 |
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| Authors | Sunhay You (0000-0003-0241-0858, Rhode Island School of Design, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-280 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2352-3077 • E-ISSN: 2352-3085 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/23523085-bja10133 |
| OpenAlex | W7163868942 |
| Language | EN |
This article elaborates on aesthetic inheritance as a category of analysis that can productively guide critical interpretations of contemporary artworks that explicitly and implicitly address Asian American histories and the Asian American subjectivities of artists. It refers to aesthetics as a web of inherited sensibilities, which, in their mundane and ordinary manifestations, contend with hegemonic ways of seeing and viewing beauty. Offering close visual analyses of photographic and sculptural works by artists Jarod Lew and Rachel Youn, the article uses the interpretive framework of aesthetic inheritance to argue how ambivalence and ambiguity emerge as specific aesthetic strategies for unsettling the intergenerational effects of the model minority myth
Ambiguity · Ambivalence · Asian americans · Hegemony · Mythology · Visual art of the United States · Visual culture · Art Education and Development · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Asian American and Pacific Histories
| Highly cited | No |
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