TY - CHAP
T1 - Retrospective: Selections from the Lucero-Sánchez family archive
AU - Lucero-Sánchez, Maribel
AU - Lucero, Jorge
PY - 2021/2/16
Y1 - 2021/2/16
N2 - This essay is composed under the premise that an early 21st Century, Mexican-American family, sustainably living in and through art, is a miracle and a gift. Nestled in the heart of this surprising present, the Lucero-Sánchez family is now—in year 19 of its existence—standing at the precipice of a morphing vista: All the children are teenagers and the oldest is heading off to college. Although increasingly quotidian in the Mexican-American imagination, the milestone of sending a child away to school elicits nostalgia and melancholy in the mother and father of the family. The nostalgia has manifested itself in an urgent curating of the family archive (both artifacts and narratives) and the melancholy is being grappled with by attempting to figure out what is generatively possible within the dynamism of the family’s imminent reality.
AB - This essay is composed under the premise that an early 21st Century, Mexican-American family, sustainably living in and through art, is a miracle and a gift. Nestled in the heart of this surprising present, the Lucero-Sánchez family is now—in year 19 of its existence—standing at the precipice of a morphing vista: All the children are teenagers and the oldest is heading off to college. Although increasingly quotidian in the Mexican-American imagination, the milestone of sending a child away to school elicits nostalgia and melancholy in the mother and father of the family. The nostalgia has manifested itself in an urgent curating of the family archive (both artifacts and narratives) and the melancholy is being grappled with by attempting to figure out what is generatively possible within the dynamism of the family’s imminent reality.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003020776-14
DO - 10.4324/9781003020776-14
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85107951784
SN - 9780367897406
SN - 9780367896775
T3 - Changing Images of Early Childhood
SP - 169
EP - 179
BT - Visual Arts with Young Children
A2 - Park, Hayon
A2 - Schulte, Christopher
PB - Routledge
ER -