"This is the first book solely dedicated to the history, development, and present-day flowering of Chicana and Chicano visual arts. It offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate Chicana/o art from its beginnings in the 1960s, its relationship to the Chicana/o Movement, and its leading artists, themes, current directions, and cultural impact." "The visual arts have both reflected and created Chicano culture in the United States. For college students - and for all readers who want to learn more about this subject - this book is an ideal introduction to an art movement with a social conscience." --Book Jacket.
Throughout this teaching-oriented volume they address a number of themes, including the politics of border life, public art practices such as posters and murals, and feminist and queer artists' figurations of Chicano/a bodies.
Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture, and Education
As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental questions about the nature of multiculturalism in the U.S. This book presents the ...
Fanon, Frantz. 1967. [1952]. Black Skin, White Masks. 1952. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press. Felps, Paula. 1999. ''One Woman's Fury: Arlington Artist Uses New works cited 357.
Day of the Dead Print,” Cargo Collective, December 11, 2013, https:// cargocollective.com/printgonzalez /Self-Help-Graphics-40th-Anniv-Day -of-the-Dead-Print; Sonia Romero's 2015 Self Help Day of the Dead commemorative print was the ...
These two volumes encapsulate the lives and careers of nearly two hundred artists -- from such established masters as Luise Jiménez and Yolanda López to emerging new talents Xóchitl Cristina Gil and Vincent Valdez -- and presents ...
This book has a uniquely inclusive focus that includes both Spanish-speaking Caribbean and contemporary Latinx art in the United States.
Walls of Heritage/Walls of Pride: African American Murals. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2000. Quintero, Victoria. “A Mural Is a Painting on a Wall Done by Human Hands.” El Tecolote 5, no. 1 (September 13, 1974): 1–4.
Four essays interpreting the historical, artistic, and educational significance of Chicano murals in California.
"Murales Rebeldes!