I Am Aztlán: This anthology brings together twelve essays by scholars, writers, and artists reflecting on the role of the "I" in Chicano and Latino culture and the diverse ways in which personal voice and experience inform their research. Max Benavidez remembers learning English, listening to his great-grandmother’s stories, reading Don Quixote, seeing the bruises on a beautiful bride, and following a Hopi Indian painter. Harry Gamboa Jr., the artist, deconstructs the freeway, perceptual pollution, fine dining, call-in shows, solipsistic conversations, and the death of self. Santa C. Barraza, the painter, reflects on her journey home, after a twenty-five-year absence, to the Texas town where she was born. Chon A. Noriega writes about his father’s Mexican LPs to come to a more compassionate understanding of the man who shaped his own career. Frances Negrón-Muntaner, the filmmaker, presents home as an unresolved and politically charged problem to which film gives witness. Vincent Pérez tells the story of his grandfather and the secret rape that shaped his family history. Jerry Garcia addresses the role of cocks in his father’s life, playing with ideas of masculinity and machismo. Tatiana de la Tierra provides a personal testimony on the history of two groundbreaking Latina lesbian journals in the early 1990s. Alma Lopez, the artist, reports from the field on recent censorship attempts in New Mexico against her work on Our Lady of Guadalupe. Ruben Ochoa, the artist, responds to the glass walls and ceilings that have limited Chicano access to institutions with … a glass zoot suit! Alvina E. Quintana offers a self-critical pedagogy through her experiences teaching mostly white East Coast students about Los Angeles. Arlene Dávila analyzes how her access to marketing agencies and employees was mediated by their perceptions of her as a Latina. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press |
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SKIN DEEP Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco Essays by C.
Ondine Chavoya Photographers Laura
Aguilar International
Center of Photography 2003 416 pages ISBN
0-8109-4635-1 (hardcover)
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THE
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LOS "..The
word Los became current among working-class Latinos, many
of them displaced from their homelands by the global forces of
capital and empire, as the name for the city in which they made
their homes, a city where they hoped to find liberty and fellowship..."| Contributors include: Jiwon
Ahn Temple
University Press 252 pages cloth
ISBN 1-59213-012-7
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TECHNOLOGICAL
RITUALS Nine artists invited to share their experiences and work with a multidisciplinary group of scholars at the USC/Annenberg Center for Communications became the magnetic center for the Annenberg Dialogues n.1 and n.2. Conceived and organized by curator Rosanna Albertini, this first publication from the progressive Annenberg Center, chooses to work as an observation post from which to look at human nature in our technological landscape through the mirrors of art. The featured artists included: John
Dykstra Featuring extensive artist images and statements along with individual analysis from Albertini. A rarely experienced cutting edge dialogue between two vastly opposed but melding disciplines. A must for contemporary art and technology based studies. Rosanna Albertini is a scholar of eighteenth-century philosophy who transferred her interest in human nature and history to contemporary art. A former researcher in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pisa (Italy), she is the organizer and chairperson of the Annenberg Dialogues, as well as a curator and art writer (primarily for artpress, Paris). About twenty years ago she started filling numerous pages of Italian magazines and newspapers with information about technological experiments in the European art scene. At the same time she was doing research, writing about every kind of contemporary art, and lecturing in European museums, at video art festivals, and at art schools. In 1990 she left Italy for Paris, living at the Cité des Arts for two years before moving to Los Angeles in 1992. Italy is her country, but Los Angeles has become her hometown. This is her first book in English. 240
pages ISBN: 0-9674127-0-6 (pbk) Annenberg
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FROM
THE WEST Photographs
by numerous photographers. San
Francisco, 1996 This book looks at the "West" of the Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicano cultures and its complex relationship with the old myths of the "wild West." Drawing on the work of six photographers: Robert
Buitrón The book is a collection of work which parodies and critiques representations of Chicanos in the visual arts and popular iconography while simultaneously giving voice to a truer articulation of the many Wests found in these cultures. Cat# WA042S Softbound
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1995
Biennial exhibition Catalogue of the 1995 Biennial exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Essays by: John
Ashbery Artists include: Peggy Ahwesh; Karim Anouz; Lawrence Andrews; David Armstrong; Hima B.; Matthew Barney; James Bishop; Roddy Bogawa; Gregg Bordowitz; Stan Brakhage; Emily Breer; Peter Cain; Shu Lea Cheang; Cheryl Donegan; Stan Douglas; Carrol Dunham; Nicole Eisenman; Jeanne C. Finley; Gretchen Stoeltje; Jane Freilicher; Julio Galán; Ellen Gallagher; Harry Gamboa Jr.; Joe Gibbons; Emily Breer; Nan Goldin; DeeDee Halleck; Thomas Allen Harris; Bessie Harvey; Todd Haynes; Peter Hutton; Ken Jacobs; Jim Jarmusch; Tom Kalin; Mike Kelley; Paul McCarthy; Toba Khedoori; Lewis Klahr; David Knudsvig; Harriet Korman; Greer Lankton; Elizabeth LeCompte; The Wooster Group; Barry Le Va; Siobahn Liddel; Judy Linn; Andrew Lord; David McDermott; Peter McGough; Brice Marden; Helen Marden; Agnes Martin; Frank Moore; Stephen Mueller; Catherine Murphy; Frances Negrón-Muntaner; Andrew Noren; Catherine Opie; John O'Reilly; Gabriel Orozco; Raphael Montañez Ortiz; Jack Pierson; Lari Pittman; Scott Rankin; Charles Ray; Michael Rees; Milton Resnick; Sam Reveles; Jason Rhoades; Nancy Rubins; Robert Ryman; Peter Saul; Christian Schumann; Richard Serra; Cindy Sherman; Margie Strosser; Peggie Ahwesh; Philip Taaffe; Diana Thater; Leslie Thornton; Rirkrit Tiravanija; Alan Turner; Cy Twombly; Willie Varela; Jeff Wall; Nari Ward; Lawrence Weiner; Sue Williams; Terry Winters; Andrea Zittel; Joe Zucker. New York Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995 268 p.: ill. (some col.); 28 cm. 10433260 Shelf Mark: 747 BIE Includes: Artists Biographies Format: Book Type: Exhibition Catalogues |
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