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Estampas de la raza : contemporary prints from the Romo collection
- Title
- Estampas de la raza : contemporary prints from the Romo collection / Lyle W. Williams ; with a prologue by Carlos Francisco Jackson.
- Author
- McNay Art Museum.
- Publication
- San Antonio, Texas : McNay, 2012, ©2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MDE 12-6815 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Williams, Lyle W.
- Description
- 152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
- Summary
- "While much attention has been paid to Chicano painting, Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection is one of the first books about the vibrant and exciting prints created by American artists of Mexican and Latino heritage in the decades following the Chicano movement of the 1970s. Drawn entirely from a major gift to the McNay Art Museum by Drs. Harriett and Ricardo Romo, among the most important collectors of this material in the United States, Estampas de la Raza is a significant document of the development of printmaking in the Latino community and a stunning survey of many of the best prints to emerge from such influential print shops as Self Help Graphics, Modern Multiples, and Coronado Studios. The book includes more than sixty prints by nearly fifty artists with full biographies of each artist and a discussion of the artists' approaches to representing the Mexican American, Latino, and Chicano experience. That experience is all here in vivid colors and bold forms--cultural icons such as the Virgen de Guadalupe, Frida Kahlo, and César Chávez; pachucos, vatos, and chicas; the sociopolitical struggles of the Chicano movement and the forging of a new cultural identity; as well as zoot suits, lowriders, Tejano music, tacos, and tattoos. The book is as much a celebration of the rich Latino culture as it is a chronicle of one of the most fascinating, and overlooked, aspects of contemporary American art--the great contribution of Chicano and Latino artists to the American printmaking tradition."--Publisher's website.
- Subjects
- Note
- Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 19, 2012-Jan. 20, 2013, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151).
- Contents
- Foreword / William J. Chiego -- Prologue. A Victory: Harriett and Ricardo Romo's Collection of Contemporary Art / Carlos Francisco Jackson -- Introduction / Lyle W. Williams -- Four Decades of Collecting / Harriett and Ricardo Romo -- Without Borders / Lyle W. Williams -- Themes and Works of Art / Lyle W. Williams -- Identity -- Struggle -- Tradition, Culture, Memory -- Icons -- Other Voices -- Artists' Biographies -- Exhibition Checklist -- Sources Worth Consulting.
- Call Number
- MDE 12-6815
- ISBN
- 9780916677589 (alk. paper)
- 0916677583 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012007251
- OCLC
- 778075044
- Author
- McNay Art Museum.
- Title
- Estampas de la raza : contemporary prints from the Romo collection / Lyle W. Williams ; with a prologue by Carlos Francisco Jackson.
- Publisher
- San Antonio, Texas : McNay, 2012, ©2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151).
- Added Author
- Williams, Lyle W.
- Sudoc No.
- Z UA380.8 M232es txdocs
- Research Call Number
- MDE 12-6815