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Give Me Life
Barnet-Sanchez, Holly; Drescher, Tim
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Description for Give Me Life
Hardback. This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AFJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 254 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2064.
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. The authors, leading experts on mural art, ... Read more
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. The authors, leading experts on mural art, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826357472
SKU
V9780826357472
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About Barnet-Sanchez, Holly; Drescher, Tim
Holly Barnet-Sanchez is an associate professor emerita of art history at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is the coeditor of Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals, also available from UNM Press, and a contributor to Mexican Muralism: A Critical History. Tim Drescher is an independent scholar in Berkeley, California, USA. He is the coauthor of Agitate! ... Read more
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