Great Walls Unlimited
Great Walls Unlimited

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Published: 1988

Total Pages: 0

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"The Great Walls Unlimited: Neighborhood Pride program was conceived in 1988 by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, in conjunction with arts activist and internationally recognized muralist Judith F. Baca, co-founder of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice.It was the Mayor's intention to create a city-wide public murals program modeled on the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a SPARC mural project which employed over 250 youth, that would involve professional artists and local community youth" -- From the Program Overview (p.3).

Mexico's Most Wanted™
Mexico's Most Wanted™

Author: Boze Hadleigh

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1597971499

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Hispanics are now the largest minority in the United States. Of the more than forty million Hispanics, some two-thirds are Mexican or Mexican-American. Almost half of all babies in the nation are born of Hispanic parents, and “Garcia” is quickly becoming the most common surname in America. So there’s no better time to feast on the interesting and entertaining trivia provided in Mexico’s Most Wanted™! Author Boze Hadleigh, grandson of a Mexican general and diplomat, covers Mexico’s culture and history in all its wonder. He discusses the fabulous food and drink native to Mexico; details its star actors, actresses, directors, singers, and athletes; highlights the history, ruins, and vacation spots that make Mexico a premier destination for travelers; and so much more. Mexico’s diversity and cultural and historical achievements are barely known to most Americans or even to many Mexican-Americans. Mexico has a long, rich, and fascinating heritage to be proud of, celebrated, learned about, and visited. Mexico’s Most Wanted™ is a great way to learn more about our southern neighbor and a great primer for those about to explore it.

Signs from the Heart
Signs from the Heart

Author: Eva Sperling Cockcroft

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780826314482

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Over the past twenty-five years, Chicano artists have made a unique contribution to public art in California, transforming thousands of walls into colorful artworks that express the dreams, achievements, aspirations, and cultural identity of the Mexican-American community. Signs From the Heart tells the inside story of this new and important American art form in four interpretive essays by noted Chicano scholars about its historical, artistic, and educational significance.

Sanctifying Art
Sanctifying Art

Author: Deborah Sokolove

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2013-07-10

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1620326337

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As an artist, Deborah Sokolove has often been surprised and dismayed by the unexamined attitudes and assumptions that the church holds about how artists think and how art functions in human life. By investigating these attitudes and tying them to concrete examples, Sokolove hopes to demystify art--to bring art down to earth, where theologians, pastors, and ordinary Christians can wrestle with its meanings, participate in its processes, and understand its uses. In showing the commonalities and distinctions among the various ways that artists themselves approach their work, Sanctifying Art can help the church talk about the arts in ways that artists will recognize. As a member of both the church and the art world, Sokolove is well-positioned to bridge the gap between the habits of thought that inform the discourse of the art world and those quite different ideas about art that are taken for granted by many Christians. When art is understood as intellectual, technical, and physical as well as ethereal, mysterious, and sacred, we will see it as an integral part of our life together in Christ, fully human and fully divine.

Give Me Life
Give Me Life

Author: Holly Barnet-Sanchez

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0826357482

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Chicanismo, the idea of what it means to be Chicano, was born in the 1970s, when grassroots activists, academics, and artists joined forces in the civil rights movimiento that spread new ideas about Mexican American history and identity. The community murals those artists painted in the barrios of East Los Angeles were a powerful part of that cultural vitality, and these artworks have been an important feature of LA culture ever since. This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced. The authors, leading experts on mural art, use a distinctive methodology, analyzing the art from aesthetic, political, and cultural perspectives to show how murals and graffiti reflected and influenced the Chicano civil rights movement. This publication is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Furthermore, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

The Nation Guide to the Nation
The Nation Guide to the Nation

Author: Richard Lingeman

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0307387283

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The essential lifestyle guide for the millions of progressives on both coasts, The Nation Guide to The Nation will help left-of-center types find left-leaning shops, cultural institutions, and gathering places in their own hometowns and on the road. CULTURAL: Art collectives / activist documentaries / political circuses / film festivals / writers' colonies / left-brained bookstores / arts advocacy groups / indie book publishers / the 25 greatest political movies / detective stories for liberals SOCIAL: Organic and slow food restaurants / political saloons and bars / bookshop cafés and conversational coffeehouses / sexy singles meet-ups / reading clubs and discussion groups / camps for radical kids / parades and festivals / parks and preserves ENVIRONMENTAL: Activist groups / monkey wrenchers and sea shepherds / eco-friendly products / favorite green markets / super co-ops / eco-tourism / farm communes / energy solutions ORGANIZATIONS: Peace and anti-nuclear / feminist / GLBT / economic policy / immigrant rights / labor issues / campaign finance reform / civil liberties / radical mouthpieces / liberal think tanks MEDIA: Left-talk radio / press watchdogs / anti-corporate media / regional and local papers / alternative weeklies / a guide to the blogosphere GOODS AND SERVICES: Natural food stores / no-sweat clothing / socially conscious mutual funds / political tours / eco-beers and hemp pretzels / funeral homes and cemeteries (for a green send-off!)

Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China
Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China

Author: Haun Saussy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1684173728

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"China" and "the West," "us" and "them," the "subject" and the "non-subject"--these and other dualisms furnish China watchers, both inside and outside China, with a pervasive, ready-made set of definitions immune to empirical disproof. But what does this language of essential difference accomplish? The essays in this book are an attempt to cut short the recitation of differences and to answer this question. In six interpretive studies of China, the author examines the ways in which the networks of assumption and consensus that make communication possible within a discipline affect collective thinking about the object of study. Among other subjects, these essays offer a historical and historiographical introduction to the problem of comparison and deal with translation, religious proselytization, semiotics, linguistics, cultural bilingualism, writing systems, the career of postmodernism in China, and the role of China as an imaginary model for postmodernity in the West. Against the reigning simplifications, these essays seek to restore the interpretation of China to the complexity and impurity of the historical situations in which it is always caught. The chief goal of the essays in this book is not to expose errors in interpreting China but to use these misunderstandings as a basis for devising better methodologies for comparative studies.

Judy Baca
Judy Baca

Author: Mary Olmstead

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781410907097

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Who is Judy Baca? What did she accomplish and how? What is her legacy? Learn about the lives of well-known Hispanic Americans who overcame tremendous odds, such as racism and poverty, and went on to leave lasting marks in the world.

Chicana and Chicano Art
Chicana and Chicano Art

Author: Carlos Francisco Jackson

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2009-02-14

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780816526475

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"This is the first book solely dedicated to the history, development, and present-day flowering of Chicana and Chicano visual arts. It offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate Chicana/o art from its beginnings in the 1960s, its relationship to the Chicana/o Movement, and its leading artists, themes, current directions, and cultural impact." "The visual arts have both reflected and created Chicano culture in the United States. For college students - and for all readers who want to learn more about this subject - this book is an ideal introduction to an art movement with a social conscience." --Book Jacket.

Los Angeles
Los Angeles

Author: R. Conrad Stein

Publisher: Children's Press(CT)

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780516222424

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Describes the history, culture, daily life, food, people, sports, and points of interest in the seat of Los Angeles County, California, the second largest city in the United States.