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Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art
Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez
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Description for Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art
Hardback. A candid, authentic account of a life in Latino art and politics Editor(s): Zimmerman, Marc. Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest. Num Pages: 216 pages, 128 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; BGFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 15. .
Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home. Born near Monterey, Mexico, and raised in a steel mill town in northwest Indiana, González studied art at the School of the Art Institute of ... Read more
Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home. Born near Monterey, Mexico, and raised in a steel mill town in northwest Indiana, González studied art at the School of the Art Institute of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035388
SKU
V9780252035388
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About Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez
Jóse Gamaliel González is a Chicago-based artist and arts organizer. Marc Zimmerman teaches in the department of modern and classical languages at the University of Houston. His many books include U.S. Latino Literatures and Orbis/Urbis Latino: Los "Hispanos" en las ciudades de los Estados Unidos.
Reviews for Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art
"A fascinating personal and artistic odyssey. González's story is about community art and community organizing, how art informs politics, and, conversely, how politics informs art."
Victor Alejandro Sorell, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Chicago State University "A unique contribution to the story of Latino arts. Bringing Aztlán to Mexican ... Read more
Victor Alejandro Sorell, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Chicago State University "A unique contribution to the story of Latino arts. Bringing Aztlán to Mexican ... Read more