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The Chicano ArchivesThis series brings together resources related to major Chicano special collections. The goal is to facilitate access to these collections and thereby stimulate new critical and historical research based on archival sources. Each book includes original scholarship, one or more finding aids, reproductions of key documents, and a selected bibliography. The series draws primarily on collections in the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library and Archive. Because preserving Chicano history requires efforts and coordination across multiple institutions, the series includes projects undertaken in collaboration with other Chicano archives. Series Editors: Chon A. Noriega and Lizette Guerra Published Volumes The Fire of Life: The Robert Legorreta-Cyclona Collection (2009) Self-Help Graphics & Art: Art in the Heart of East Los Angeles (2005) ISSN: 1557-5934 |
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The Robert Legorreta–Cyclona Collection The Chicano Archives, volume 2 essay by Robb Hernandez 2009 8.5 x 11 92 pages 29 b/w illustrations soft cover ISBN: 978-0-89551-120-1 The Fire of Life—the collection of performance artist Robert Legorreta—is a fascinating and eclectic archive. Correspondence, artwork, photographs, and other materials document Legorreta’s artistic career and trace the development of the East L.A. arts scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Another part of the collection contains more than a thousand LPs, recordings gathered primarily for the Latino imagery on their covers. The balance comprises materials—toys, coupons, ads, and the like—that show how Latino themes have been used to promote consumer products. Robb Hernandez first explores Legorreta’s career as the performance artist Cyclona and his influence on the generation of East L.A. artists who emerged during the tumultuous years of the Chicano movement, then assesses the collection in terms of its value to researchers. An illustrated section features album covers and the artist’s thoughts on the significance of their Latino imagery. The book also includes a detailed finding aid for the collection. |
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Art in the Heart of East Los Angeles The Chicano Archives, volume 1 essay by Kristen Guzmán edited by Colin Gunckel 2005 8.5 x 11 142 pages 12 b/w illustrations soft cover ISBN: 978-0-89551-100-3 Recipient of the International Latino Book Award for Best Reference Book in English, presented by Latino Literary Now, a non-profit organization supporting literacy and literary excellence within the Latino community, in conjunction with BookExpoAmerica. For more than three decades, Self Help Graphics & Art has been a national model for community-based art making and art-based community making. Through its innovative printmaking and other programs, Self Help has empowered local artists and reached out to the world beyond East Los Angeles with the vibrancy of Chicano/Latino art. Kristen Guzmán draws on archival sources and on interviews with artists to compose a historical essay that tells the story of this remarkable organization. The guide to the archives was created and contributed by the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which houses the Self Help Graphics archives. Part of the "UCLA in LA" initiative, this book comes out of a partnership between the CSRC and CEMA. In addition to the historical essay, the book includes a finding aid to the CEMA archives and a note on strategic partnerships between the public university and community-based arts. ISSN: 1557-5934 ASIN: 0895511002 UPC: 9780895511003 |
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