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Chicano Montage : art and cultural crisis
1995This is an essay by independent scholar Max Benavídez in which he considers the impact of what he calls the “internal exile and displacement,” and decades of social marginalization on the self-identification of many Chicanos. He explores the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1086178 -
The post-chicano aesthetic : making sense of the world
1990In this document, independent scholar Max Benavidez sets out to establish a working definition of post-Chicano art. He suggests that early on there were two commonly held views of Chicano identity articulated in visual production: one that glorified [...]ICAA Record ID: 1082685 -
The wall : image and boundary, Chicano art in the 1970s
1984Max Benavidez and Kate Vozoff provide a brief overview of the history of Mexicans in Los Angeles, emphasizing the ways in which Mexican-Americans negotiate a complex confluence of multiple cultures. The authors argue that to convey these conditions, [...]ICAA Record ID: 820606