Self Help Graphics at Fifty
A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking
1st Edition
Published on 25. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-520-39087-4 (ISBN)
Description
The definitive history of a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building.
Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States.
Officially launched in 1973 during the Chicano Movement, Self Help Graphics & Art continues to serve on the cultural front. The institution's commitment to art, dignity for all, and empowerment of Chicanx and Latinx artists appears in every aspect of programming, including the Dia de los Muertos festival; the Barrio Mobile Art Studio, which brings art education to underserved schools; and the printmaking program, which offers an accessible medium infused with activist aims. Looking at the multiple genealogies of art that intersect in East Los Angeles, Self Help Graphics at Fifty bears witness to the organization's influential role in US and global art histories.
Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States.
Officially launched in 1973 during the Chicano Movement, Self Help Graphics & Art continues to serve on the cultural front. The institution's commitment to art, dignity for all, and empowerment of Chicanx and Latinx artists appears in every aspect of programming, including the Dia de los Muertos festival; the Barrio Mobile Art Studio, which brings art education to underserved schools; and the printmaking program, which offers an accessible medium infused with activist aims. Looking at the multiple genealogies of art that intersect in East Los Angeles, Self Help Graphics at Fifty bears witness to the organization's influential role in US and global art histories.
Reviews / Votes
"The contributors frame Self Help Graphics as an arts organization with the potential to inspire a vision of a more just and inclusive art world, providing new perspectives on the organization and its significant contributions to the Chicano art movement and making Los Angeles a major center for global art." * Design and Culture *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
84 color illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-39087-4 (9780520390874)
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Tatiana Reinoza | Karen Mary Davalos
Self Help Graphics at Fifty
A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking
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Persons
Tatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory.
Karen Mary Davalos is Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties.
Karen Mary Davalos is Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties.
Content
Contents
Introduction
Intangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art Ecologies
Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza
PART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART
1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibanez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art Tradition
JV Decemvirale
2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas/os
and Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles
Adriana Katzew
3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of
Solidarity
Mary Thomas
PART TWO: THE ATELIER
4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help Graphics
Claudia Zapata
5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LA
Robb Hernandez
6. Self Help Graphics & Art's Contributions to Chicana/o/x Art Histories
Karen Mary Davalos
PART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD
7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of Angels
Kency Cornejo
8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990s
Olga U. Herrera
9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market-a Conversation
with Arlene Davila
Arlene Davila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza
Atelier History
Self Help Graphics & Art Timeline
Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index
Introduction
Intangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art Ecologies
Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza
PART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART
1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibanez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art Tradition
JV Decemvirale
2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas/os
and Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles
Adriana Katzew
3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of
Solidarity
Mary Thomas
PART TWO: THE ATELIER
4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help Graphics
Claudia Zapata
5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LA
Robb Hernandez
6. Self Help Graphics & Art's Contributions to Chicana/o/x Art Histories
Karen Mary Davalos
PART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD
7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of Angels
Kency Cornejo
8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990s
Olga U. Herrera
9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market-a Conversation
with Arlene Davila
Arlene Davila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza
Atelier History
Self Help Graphics & Art Timeline
Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index