
Judith F. Baca
Volume 11
Anna Indych-Lopez(Author)
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Published on 27. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-89551-160-7 (ISBN)
Description
Behind the fascinating public artist's practice of collaboration
Judith F. Baca is best known for the Great Wall of Los Angeles (1976-83), a vibrant 2,740-foot mural in Los Angeles that presents an alternative history of California-one that focuses on the contributions of marginalized and underrepresented communities. The mural is emblematic of Baca's pioneering approach to creating public art, a process in which members of the community are essential contributors to the conception and realization of the work.
Anna Indych-LOpez explores Baca's oeuvre, from early murals painted with local gang members in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles to more recently commissioned works. She looks in depth at the Great Wall and considers the artist's ongoing work with the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California, a nonprofit group founded by Baca in 1976. Throughout, Indych-LOpez assesses what she calls Baca's "public art of contestation" and discusses how ideas of collaboration and authorship and issues of race, class, and gender have influenced and sustained Baca's art practice.
Judith F. Baca is best known for the Great Wall of Los Angeles (1976-83), a vibrant 2,740-foot mural in Los Angeles that presents an alternative history of California-one that focuses on the contributions of marginalized and underrepresented communities. The mural is emblematic of Baca's pioneering approach to creating public art, a process in which members of the community are essential contributors to the conception and realization of the work.
Anna Indych-LOpez explores Baca's oeuvre, from early murals painted with local gang members in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles to more recently commissioned works. She looks in depth at the Great Wall and considers the artist's ongoing work with the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California, a nonprofit group founded by Baca in 1976. Throughout, Indych-LOpez assesses what she calls Baca's "public art of contestation" and discusses how ideas of collaboration and authorship and issues of race, class, and gender have influenced and sustained Baca's art practice.
Reviews / Votes
"This publication fills a gap in the critical literature by considering Baca's prominent place in the history of Latinx, feminist, and public art as well as the broader narrative of art history." -CHOICEMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Los Angeles, CA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
83 color plates
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89551-160-7 (9780895511607)
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Person
Anna Indych-LOpez is associate professor of art history at The City College of New York and The Graduate Center, CUNY, specializing in Latin American modernisms and Latin American and Latinx contemporary art. She is author of Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927-1940 and co-author of Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art.