Signs from the Heart
Author: Eva Sperling Cockcroft
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780826314482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 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.