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Title:

Los Four [videorecording] ; Murals of Aztlán : the street painters of East Los Angeles.

Format:

[videorecording] ;

Publisher:

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 46 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Los Four (Artist group)
Mexican American artists--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Exhibitions.
Mexican American art--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Exhibitions.
Mural painting and decoration--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Exhibitions.
Documentary films--United States.
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Tartan, James.
Los Four (Artist group)

Other Titles:

Murals of Aztlán (Motion picture)
Street painters of East Los Angeles.

Notes:

Released as motion pictures in 1974 and 1981. Producer, director, James Tartan.

Contents:

Los Four (1974, 23 min.) / photography, Doug Ryan, Albert Reyes ; edited by Susan Heick, David Thompson, Tim Ryerson ; produced & directed by Jim Tartan ; produced for Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; produced by County of Los Angeles Motion Picture Unit, Chief Administrative Office -- Murals of Aztlań (1981, 22 min.) / Bronson Films, Inc. ; editor, Heather Jo McDougall ; music by Mark Guerrero ; camera, Doug Ryan ; producer/director, Jim Tartan

Summary:

Two documentaries on key moments and figures in Chicano art. Los Four documents the first exhibition of Chicano artists held at a major art museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in 1974. Murals of Aztlán documents the exhibition of the same name at the Craft and Folk Art Museum of Los Angeles in 1981. Featured artists include Los Four (Carlos Almaraz, Gilbert "Magu" Sanchez Lujan, Roberto de la Rocha, Frank Romero), Gronk, Judithe Hernandez, Willie Herron, John Valadez, and the East Los Streetscapers.
Murals of Aztlań: "Documents the exhibition [of the same name] at the Craft and Folk Art Museum of Los Angeles in 1981. The exhibition featured portable murals in the gallery space painted by some of the leading Chicano and Chicana artists: Carlos Almaraz, Gronk, Judithe Hernańdez [de Neikrug], Willie Herron, Frank Romero, John Valadez, and the East Los Streetscapers (David Botello, Wayne Alaniz Healy, & George Yepes)" -- Container.

Series:

Chicano cinema and media art series ; vol. 1

OCLC:

(OCoLC)322495833

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)