Chicano Graffiti and Murals

Chicano Graffiti and Murals
Author: Sojin Kim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Mexican American mural painting and decoration
ISBN: 9781617030666

A study of an artist and his art that proliferates over north Los Angeles

Chicano and Chicana Art

Chicano and Chicana Art
Author: Jennifer A. González
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1478003405

This anthology provides an overview of the history and theory of Chicano/a art from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the debates and vocabularies that have played key roles in its conceptualization. In Chicano and Chicana Art—which includes many of Chicano/a art's landmark and foundational texts and manifestos—artists, curators, and cultural critics trace the development of Chicano/a art from its early role in the Chicano civil rights movement to its mainstream acceptance in American art institutions. 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. They also chart the multiple cultural and artistic influences—from American graffiti and Mexican pre-Columbian spirituality to pop art and modernism—that have informed Chicano/a art's practice. Contributors. Carlos Almaraz, David Avalos, Judith F. Baca, Raye Bemis, Jo-Anne Berelowitz, Elizabeth Blair, Chaz Bojóroquez, Philip Brookman, Mel Casas, C. Ondine Chavoya, Karen Mary Davalos, Rupert García, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Shifra Goldman, Jennifer A. González, Rita Gonzalez, Robb Hernández, Juan Felipe Herrera, Louis Hock, Nancy L. Kelker, Philip Kennicott, Josh Kun, Asta Kuusinen, Gilberto “Magu” Luján, Amelia Malagamba-Ansotegui, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Dylan Miner, Malaquias Montoya, Judithe Hernández de Neikrug, Chon Noriega, Joseph Palis, Laura Elisa Pérez, Peter Plagens, Catherine Ramírez, Matthew Reilly, James Rojas, Terezita Romo, Ralph Rugoff, Lezlie Salkowitz-Montoya, Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino, Cylena Simonds, Elizabeth Sisco, John Tagg, Roberto Tejada, Rubén Trejo, Gabriela Valdivia, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Victor Zamudio-Taylor

Walls of Empowerment

Walls of Empowerment
Author: Guisela Latorre
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2009-09-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 029277799X

Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity in U.S. territory. Providing readers with a history and genealogy of key muralists' productions, Guisela Latorre also showcases new material and original research on works and artists never before examined in print. An art form often associated with male creative endeavors, muralism in fact reflects significant contributions by Chicana artists. Encompassing these and other aspects of contemporary dialogues, including the often tense relationship between graffiti and muralism, Walls of Empowerment is a comprehensive study that, unlike many previous endeavors, does not privilege non-public Latina/o art. In addition, Latorre introduces readers to the role of new media, including performance, sculpture, and digital technology, in shaping the muralist's "canvas." Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, this timely endeavor highlights the ways in which California's Mexican American communities have used images of indigenous peoples to raise awareness of the region's original citizens. Latorre also casts murals as a radical force for decolonization and liberation, and she provides a stirring description of the decades, particularly the late 1960s through 1980s, that saw California's rise as the epicenter of mural production. Blending the perspectives of art history and sociology with firsthand accounts drawn from artists' interviews, Walls of Empowerment represents a crucial turning point in the study of these iconographic artifacts.

Art in the Streets

Art in the Streets
Author: Jeffrey Deitch
Publisher: Skira
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0847836177

A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.

Give Me Life

Give Me Life
Author: Holly Barnet-Sánchez
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016
Genre: Ethnicity in art
ISBN: 0826357474

This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced.

¡Murales Rebeldes!

¡Murales Rebeldes!
Author: Erin M. Curtis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781626400498

"Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals under Siege is published by LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and the California Historical Society, in association with Angel City Press, as a companion publication to the exhibition Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals under Siege, September 2017/February 2018, part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA."

Signs from the Heart

Signs from the Heart
Author: Eva Sperling Cockcroft
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780826314482

Over the past twenty-five years, Chicano artists have made a unique contribution to public art in California, transforming thousands of walls into colorful artworks that express the dreams, achievements, aspirations, and cultural identity of the Mexican-American community. Signs From the Heart tells the inside story of this new and important American art form in four interpretive essays by noted Chicano scholars about its historical, artistic, and educational significance.

Chicano Graffiti and Murals

Chicano Graffiti and Murals
Author: Sojin Kim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN:

For almost a decade Peter Quezada, a prolific self-taught artist, has painted murals and lettering on buildings and retaining walls in neighborhoods northeast of downtown Los Angeles. He refers to his work as a "graffiti deterrent" or a "substitute for graffiti, " and he targets sites that are favorites of taggers and gang graffiti writers. Often he enlists their assistance and designs his murals to appeal to these youths as well as to discourage them from participating in antisocial behavior. Drawing upon an eclectic visual repertoire of images and graphics, his murals reflect his affinity for the neighborhoods in which he has lived. Much of his work is taken from images he encounters in his daily life. Highlighting the interplay of contemporary life, mass-media images that confront the public, and the use of physical space in the city landscape, this fascinating book shows how such art as Quezada's has become the signature of modern urban culture.

Graffiti L.A.

Graffiti L.A.
Author: Steve Grody
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This comprehensive and visual history of graffiti in Los Angeles examines the myriad styles and techniques used by writers today.A.Us most prolific and infamous writers provide insight into the lives of these fugitive artists.