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Mano a mano : an essay on the representation of the Zoot Suit and its misrepresentation by Octavio Paz
1986In this 1986 essay, art historian Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino discusses Mexican poet Octavio Paz’s (mis)representation of 1940s Mexican-American subculture, including the zoot suits worn by Chicano people. The writer states that in his book [...]ICAA Record ID: 1126565 -
Border culture : the multicultural paradigm
1990In this text, Guillermo Gómez-Peña declares the new dominant U.S. culture “border culture,” and assesses how Latino culture has infiltrated U.S. culture writ large. U.S. culture has, he argues, become fundamentally multicultural, and the “ [...]ICAA Record ID: 1065568 -
Minorities and Fine-Arts Museums in the United States
1990Peter Marzio reflects on the experience of organizing and presenting the exhibition Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters from his perspective as the director of the organizing museum. Marzio tells us he wants to make “ [...]ICAA Record ID: 1065274 -
A personal response : to some of the twelve points posited with respect to chicano nationalism
In this text, art historian and activist Victor Alejandro Sorell ponders on arguments for designating Chicano people a nation: the history of the twelfth-century Aztec homeland Aztlán, —located in the U.S. Southwest,— included; the seizure of [...]ICAA Record ID: 1064542 -
Casa Aztlán: Focus of Cultural Expression in the Midwest
1982This article introduces readers to Casa Aztlán, a Latino social services center and cultural organization founded in Chicago in 1970, and widely known in the Midwest for its cultural programs. It describes Casa Aztlán’s location in Chicago’s [...]ICAA Record ID: 1064510 -
Chicano art
1974In this essay, Shifra Goldman defines Chicano art as the expression of the historical conditions of what she calls the “double-mestizaje” [double-intermingling] of Chicano experience. Beginning with a consideration of the unresolved question of [...]ICAA Record ID: 1061662 -
Chicago Show Jury Process Compromised
In this statement, the Chicago Artists' Coalition (CAC) voices its objection to the mid-competition change of rules and procedures for selecting artists for The Chicago Show. It calls the organizers’ decision to add an invitational component to [...]ICAA Record ID: 867431 -
Synopsis of the symposium on the Hispanic American aesthetic : origins, manifestations, and significance
1983Art historian Jacinto Quirarte lays a framework for discussing an artwork or body of work by examining the tradition to which it belongs and the reasons for which (and for whom) it was created. Summarizing the conclusions of the 1979 Symposium on the [...]ICAA Record ID: 846381 -
Pintando, las minorias ganan la calle
In this text, the Mexican writer Julio Solórzano contextualizes a lecture that the Chicago mural painter and activist John Weber gave while in Mexico and includes a brief history of Latino murals in Chicago. Solarzano explains that the mural [...]ICAA Record ID: 840561 -
Interview with Carlos Cortez in Chicago 12-16-94
1994In this text, Coral Gilbert and Ricardo Frazer interview Carlos Cortez, a Chicago artist, poet, and social activist. Cortez speaks about his parents’ radicalism and artistic involvements and the part they played in his personal development. He [...]ICAA Record ID: 840517 -
A Sierra Beyond Borders
1991In this feature on the Cuban-American artist Paul Sierra, Jeff Huebner writes the artist’s biography, his recent ascent in the mainstream art world, and the attendant conflicts that arose in relationship to his status as a Latino artist. Huebner [...]ICAA Record ID: 840128 -
Nuestra Gente
1979This collection of texts, published under the “Nuestra Gente” column in two issues of Abrazo [Hug] in the fall of 1976 and the summer of 1979, is involved with events and activities organized by midwestern Latino artists and arts organizations. [...]ICAA Record ID: 840104 -
Socio-political implications : paper read October 21, 1989 at the Taller Boricua Exhibition Colloquium
1990In this essay, art critic Lucy Lippard acknowledges that the Taller Boricua artists collective contributed to diversifying the New York art milieu in the 1970s and 1980s by engaging in political actions and creating works that explored issues of [...]ICAA Record ID: 796405 -
Sources
1976This essay by Chicano artist Rupert Garcia explores the use of the term “the other” in order to define and separate minority groups within mainstream Western culture and how this is reflected in art. The catalyst for this discussion is an exhibit [...]ICAA Record ID: 796213 -
Michigan Congress on the Arts Resolution V-5-a
1978This document is a resolution directed to the Michigan Council for the Arts to establish a minority task force with the purpose of studying issues related to minority artists and arts in minority communities, as well as with the purpose of earmarking [...]ICAA Record ID: 782672