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Author Barnet-Sánchez, Holly, author.

Title Give me life : iconography and identity in East LA murals / Holly Barnet-Sanchez and Tim Drescher ; foreword by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto ; with a chapter by Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino.

Publication Info. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
©2016

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  751.7309794 B264g 2016    ---  Available
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Description xxiii, 412 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 21 x 26 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index.
Contents Setting the stage: analytical frameworks -- Contexts: historical and art historical -- Estrada Courts entrance guardians -- Estrada Courts: the Olympic Boulevard façade -- Estrada Courts: for residents' eyes only -- Nature row / Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino -- Ramona Gardens -- Mural corridors: early clusters on First Street and Whittier Boulevard -- The central corridor: Avenida Cesar Chavez -- Mural corridors: Soto Street, Boyle Heights, and elsewhere -- Over the Hazard hill to City Terrace -- Nonnarrative Chicanismo: Willie F. Herrón III -- Geometry, history, Chicanismo: the East Los Streetscapers -- Representing East Los murals in 2013.
Summary "Chicanismo, the idea of what it means to be Chicano, was born in the 1970s, when grassroots activists, academics, and artists joined forces in the civil rights movimiento that spread new ideas about Mexican American history and identity. The community murals those artists painted in the barrios of East Los Angeles were a powerful part of that cultural vitality, and these artworks have been an important feature of LA culture ever since. This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced. Leading experts on mural art, the authors use a distinctive methodology, analyzing the art from aesthetic, political, and cultural perspectives to show how murals and graffiti reflected and influenced the Chicano civil rights movement." -- Publisher's description
Subject Mexican American mural painting and decoration -- California -- East Los Angeles -- 20th century.
Mexican American mural painting and decoration -- California -- East Los Angeles -- 21st century.
Street art -- California -- East Los Angeles -- 20th century.
Street art -- California -- East Los Angeles -- 21st century.
Ethnicity in art.
Ethnicity in art. (OCoLC)fst00916065
Mexican American mural painting and decoration. (OCoLC)fst01018995
Street art. (OCoLC)fst01134650
California -- East Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01221144
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Added Author Drescher, Tim, author.
ISBN 9780826357472 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0826357474 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780826357489

 
    
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