Chicana and Chicano art : ProtestArte / Carlos Francisco Jackson.
Jackson, Carlos Francisco, 1978-
2009
N6538.M4 J25 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Chicana and Chicano art : ProtestArte / Carlos Francisco Jackson.
Author
Jackson, Carlos Francisco, 1978-
ISBN
9780816526475 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816526478 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
N6538.M4 J25 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
704/.0368/72073
Summary
From the Publisher: 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 impacts. Although the word "Chicano" once held negative connotations, students-along with civil rights activists and artists-adopted it in the late 1960s in order to reimagine and redefine what it meant to be Mexican American in the United States. Chicanismo is the ideology and spirit behind the Chicano Movement and Chicanismo unites the artists whose work is revealed and celebrated in this book. Jackson's scope is wide. He includes paintings, prints, murals, altars, sculptures, and photographs-and, of course, the artists who created them. Beginning with key influences, he describes the importance of poster and mural art, focusing on the work of the Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada and the significance of Mexican and Cuban talleres (print workshops). He examines the importance of art collectives in the United States, as well as Chicano talleres and community art centers, for the growth of the Chicano art movement. In conclusion, he considers how Chicano art has been presented to the general American public. As Jackson shows, 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 fascinating subject-his book is an introduction to an art movement with a social conscience.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Mexican American experience.
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Introduction
History of the Mexican American experience
A new nation and a new culture
Mexican Americans and the World War II era
Emergence of Chicanismo
National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference and Aztlán
Approaching democracy and approaching Chicanismo
1. Artistic influences on the Chicano art movement
Emergence of a Mexican national art : challenging colonial art
José Guadalupe Posada
The Mexican revolution and the Mexican mural movement
Works Progress Administration Section of Fine Arts and the Federal Art Project
Taller de Gráfica Popular
OSPAAAL and Cuban printmaking
Conclusion
2. Art and the Chicano movement
Emergence of a Chicano art movement
Rasquachismo : a Chicano sensibility
Geography of Chicana and Chicano art production
The poster
The mural
Conclusion
3. Prominent themes in Chicano art
Chicano nationalism and pre-Columbian culture
Immigration and the border
Labor
Chicana feminism and sexuality
Family and rituals
Antiwar activism and Third World liberation struggles
Chicano popular culture
Conclusion
4. Chicano art collectives
Mexican American Liberation Art Front (MALAF), 1968-1970
Asco, 1971-1987
Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), 1972-
Mujeres Muralistas, 1973-1977
Con Safos and Los Quemados
Los Four, 1973-1983
Co-Madres Artistas, 1992-
5. Community art centers and workshops
Self Help Graphics and Art Inc., 1970-
Galería de la Raza, 1970-
Centro Cultural de la Raza, 1970-
La Raza Silkscreen Center (LRSC), 1970-1995, and Mission Gráfica, 1995-
Social Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), 1976-
6. Trends in Chicano art
Exhibitions
Archives, collections, and publications
The future of Chicano art.

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