"Anzaldúa also discusses various forms of communication, in addition to the art of writing, in relation to the invisible border between the white culture and the Latin culture. For example, she talks about the way Latino/as and whites treat works of visual art. To Latin culture and its people, art is a living, breathing thing which has human needs; and they treat works of art not as objects but as persons, offering sacrifices and feeding and even bathing them. In contrast, Western cultures and their people treat art as mere objects for bragging and decorating small corners of their residences. They do not treat works of art as living creatures,“housing their art works in the best structures designed by the best architects…servicing them with insurance, guards to protect them, conservators to maintain them, specialists to mount and display them, and the educated and upper classes to ‘view’ them."[7] Thus they cannot connect deeply with works of art as those from Latin cultures can.
I just thought this was interesting from the perspective of a student involved in various art courses and social courses. This is from a book called Borderlands/La Frontera, where she discusses borders between cultures. Those cultures do not have to be ethnic borders. They can be between male and female, between generations, between towns, between languages. This has obviously made an impact on the way she sees people appreciating art.
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