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| I Need Some More Hair Products |
| 藝術家 arts / Ken Chu |
| 作品年份：1988 |
| 所屬類型：Painting 繪畫 |
| 作品出處：Cahan, Susan and Zoya Kocur eds. Contemporary Art and Multimedia Education. NY: Routledge, 1996. |
| 資料提供者：Kate Liu/劉紀雯 |
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Chu, I
Need some More Hair Products (1988)?revives memories of summers
as a teenager on the West Coast.?Lightly mocking a teenage longing,
Chu portrays himself grooming before a mirror while perceiving himself as
part of the American mainstream.?His reflection is of an Asian man while
in his mind he visualizes being blond and "white."?The dual images present
a conflict between who he sees and?how he perceives himself.?By
surrounding this image swith signs of the "good life" and pairing Asian and
Western symbols.... Chu both suggests the succesfful adaptation of many Asians
to American culture and tehir simultaneous inability to transcend the ultimate
barrier to complete acceptance-- not being Caucasian.? (Cahan , 62) |
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