Lynn,

I don't know if this is the type of thing you are looking for but I recall
an essay by Ruth Phillips entitled "Why not Tourist Art? Significant
Silences in North American Museum Representations" in _After Colonialism:
Imperial Histories and Post-Colonial Displacements_. Princeton, 1994

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Maiko Behr
Assistant Curator
The Clark Center for Japanese Art
15770 Tenth Avenue
Hanford, CA 93230
http://www.clarkjapaneseart.org



>Does anyone have any good references on tourist art.   We are beginning
>projects with Aid to Artisans that we wish to document and I need to
>find resources in this area.  The ones I have are Jules-Rosette and
>Graburn, but they are relatively old.  Does anyone know of any more
>contemporary studies?
>thanks in advance,
>
>
>Lynn Rosamond Norris
>Collections Manager
>
>Exploris
>112 S. Blount Street
>Raleigh, NC 27601
>
>phone: 919-857-1023
>main: 919-834-4040
>fax: 919-834-3516
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>url: http://www.exploris.org

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