Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community by Gary D. Keller


Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community
Title : Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community
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ISBN : 1931010250
ISBN-10 : 9781931010252
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 199
Publication : First published April 1, 2004

This beautifully produced book showcases more than 120 works of Chicana and Chicano art and provides a good representation of the art movement for general readers as well as students. Created in part as a catalog for the 2004 exhibition of the same name, the book is also designed to serve as a useful tool for teaching Chicana/o art from the elementary grades through graduate school as well as for the novice adult. Art aficionados will relish the striking full-color images in this coffee-table-quality volume. Themes include community values, borders and biculturalism, spirituality, personal feelings and shared experiences, cultural icons, and nontraditional representations.

Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community Reviews

  • Peter Tillman

    I picked this up on a whim, and liked it more than I expected to. It's the catalog of a 2004 exhibit from ASU in Phoenix (which I missed, dammit) and has a lot of Good Stuff, very nicely reproduced. One page of a print drew a double-take, the repro of the artist's pencilled sig was so good.

    Anyway, next best thing to seeing the actual exhibit... I just looked around the web for samples, and basically failed to find any -- but here's link to Laura Alvarez's "Double Agent Sirvienta," my favorite painting in the book. It turns out that DAS is "a spy posing as a maid on both sides of the border, whose narrative has more twists and turns than a Friday night telenovela. Since 1996, Alvarez has created paintings, prints, films, installations, and music about this character and her adventures." Cool beans, guys:
    http://web.mac.com/lauraalvarez2/iWeb...

    The art is basically free of political cant -- but the text certainly isn't, and there's an educational appendix that has such ominous features as "Interdisciplinary Transfer Potential". This stuff can be ignored, skimmed -- or savored, if it's your sort of thing -- but the art, which is what counts, is first-rate. The book itself is handsomely-produced, though the binding (a "perfect"-bound large-format paperback) is fragile.

  • Aaron the Pink Donut

    great collection. Anytime you have multiply George Yepes pieces that's a win!