Rasquache
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Rasquache is a Spanish term common in Latin America which originally had a negative connotation as being an attitude that was lower class or impoverished. This definition was later reversed by the Chicano arts movement which transformed the have-not sensibility into a style. The art is defiant and spontaneous. Rasquache art uses the most basic, simplest, quickest, and crudest means necessary to create the desired expression, in essence, creating the most from the least.
Rasquache has non-artistic usage as well and can be used to mean "ghetto." Behavior such as reusing plastic utensils and zip top bags could be described as "rasquache." Beyond being simply frugal, the rasquache philosophy also involves inventing new uses for conventional objects. This often means giving a new function to something that would conventionally be considered broken.
[edit] External links
- Reel Rasquache - Website of the Reel Rasquache Film Festival
- Domesticana: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquache - essay on rasquachismo
- Rasquache Artz - Website of the Chicano Art Style, Rasquache
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