Looking for alternatives : notes on Chicano art, 1960- 1990 / Philip Brookman -- Con Safo (C/S) artists : a contingency factor / Mel Casas -- El arte del Chicano : "The spirit of experience" / Gilbert Sanchez Luján -- Notes on an aesthetic alternative / Carlos Almaraz -- A critical perspective on the state of Chicano art / Malaquías Montoya and Lezlie Salkowitz-Montoya -- Response : another opinion on the state of Chicano art / Shifra Goldman -- Post-Chicano / Rita González -- The new Chicano movement / Josh Kun -- Post-movimiento : the contemporary (re)generation of Chicana/o art / Tomás Ybarra-Frausto -- The politics of popular art / Rupert García -- Rasquachismo : a Chicano sensibility / Tomás Ybarra-Frausto -- Domesticana : the sensibility of Chicana rasquachismo / Amalia Mesa-Bains -- Chicano humor in art : for whom the Taco Bell tolls / Rubén Trejo -- Points of convergence : the iconography of the Chicano poster / Terezita Romo -- Graffiti is art : any drawn line that speaks about identity, dignity, and unity ... that line is art / Charles "Chaz" Bojórquez -- Inventing tradition, negotiating modernism : Chicano/a art and the pre-Columbian past / Victor Zamudio-Taylor -- Negotiated frontiers : contemporary Chicano photography / Jennifer A. González -- Deus ex machina : tradition, technology, and the Chicanafuturist art of Marion C. Martinez / Catherine S. Ramírez -- Celia Alvarez Muñoz : "Civic studies" / Roberto Tejada -- Mel Casas : Redefining America / Nancy Kelker -- Drawing offensive/offensive drawing : toward a theory of mariconógraphy / Robb Hernández -- The pachuco's flayed hide : mobility, identity, and buena garras / Marcos Sánchez-Tranquilino and John Tagg -- Writing on the social body : dresses and body ornamentation in contemporary Chicana art / Laúra E. Pérez -- Ojo de la Diosa : becoming divine in Delilah Montoya's photography / Asta Kuusinen -- Art comes for the Archbishop : the semiotics of contemporary Chicana feminism and the work of Alma López / Luz Calvo -- The enacted environment of East Los Angeles / James T. Rojas -- Space, power, and youth culture : Mexican American graffiti and Chicano murals in East Los Angeles, 1972-1978 / Marcos Sánchez-Tranquilino -- Pseudographic cinema : Asco's no-movies / C. Ondine Chavoya -- Whose monument where? Public art in a many-cultured society / Judith F. Baca -- La memoria de nuestra tierra : Colorado / Judith F. Baca -- The Donkey cart caper : some thoughts on socially conscious art in anti-social public space / David Avalos -- Public audit : an interview with Elizabeth Sisco, Louis Hock, and David Avalos / Cylena Simonds -- Border arte : nepantla, el lugar de la frontera / Gloria Anzaldúa -- The spaces of home in Chicano and Latino representations of the San Diego-Tijuana borderlands (1968-2002) / Jo-Anne Berelowitz -- Straddling la otra frontera : inserting MiChicana/o visual culture into Chicana/o art history / Dylan Miner -- Borders, border crossing, and political art in North Carolina / Gabriela Valdivia, Joseph Palis, and Matthew Reilly -- Excerpts from Codex Espangliensis : from Columbus to the border patrol / Enrique Chagoya, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Felicia Rice -- 187 reasons why Mexicanos can't cross the border (remix) / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Los Four / Peter Plagens -- MARCH to an aesthetic of revolution / Raye Bemis -- Resisting modernism : Chicano art: retro progressive or progressive retro? / Ralph Rugoff -- Our America at the Smithsonian / Philip Kennicott -- Alex Rivera, Philip Kennicott Debate Washington Post review of Our America / Philip Kennicott -- What do we mean when we talk about "Latino Art"? / Elizabeth Blair -- Chicano art : looking backward / Shifra M. Goldman -- Readers' Forum letter to the editor in response to Shifra Goldman's exhibition review / Judithe Elena Hernández de Neikrug -- Readers' Forum response to Judithe Hernández's letter to the editor / Shifra M. Goldman -- All roads lead to East L.A. : Goez Art Studios and Gallery / Karen Mary Davalos -- From CARA to CACA : the multiple anatomies of Chicano/a art at the turn of the new century / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- On museum row : aesthetics and the politics of exhibition / Chon Noriega -- Strangeways here we come / Rita González.
Summary:
This anthology provides an overview of the history and theory of Chicano/a art from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the debates and vocabularies that have played key roles in its conceptualization. In this book - which includes many of Chicano/a art's landmark and foundational texts and manifestos - artists, curators, and cultural critics trace the development of Chicano/a art from its early role in the Chicano civil rights movement to its mainstream acceptance in American art institutions. Throughout this teaching-oriented volume they address a number of themes, including the politics of border life, public art practices such as posters and murals, and feminist and queer artists' figurations of Chicano/a bodies. They also chart the multiple cultural and artistic influences - from American graffiti and Mexican pre-Columbian spirituality to pop art and modernism - that have informed Chicano/a art's practice.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.