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JUST ANOTHER POSTER?: CHICANO GRAPHIC ARTS IN CALIFORNIA
Noriega, Chon A.
2002 41419 This publication, which accompanies a touring exhibition organized by the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sources the remarkable holdings of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), a permanent program of the university's Davidson Library. The book explores the profound role art played as a part of the Chicano movement in California and the effectiveness of the poster medium itself. The exhibition of 56 artists' works looks at Chicano graphic art since the 1960s, initially created as part of the Chicano civil rights movement. In these posters, which usually announce events or promote specific causes, artists try to recapture Mexican heritage and create Chicano identity, often using images and words from both their native and their adopted culture. The diversity of approach shows in the form and styles of the work itself, which ranges from silkscreen to digital and from traditional to postmodern pastiche. Over 30 color plates, a catalog of the exhibition, and an appendix about printmaking processes round out the text. As contributor George Lipsitz so aptly describes it: "The production of posters was not so much community-based art making as it was art-based community making." Recommended for large public libraries, academic libraries, and specialized art or Hispanic collections. P University of Washington Press 0942006712 / 9780942006711
Soft Cover Brand New Condition Santa Barbara, CA
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33.81 USD
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