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Author:
Almaraz, Carlos  Search this
Author:
Fox, Howard N Playing with fire  Search this
Almaraz, Carlos Paintings Selections  Search this
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)  Search this
Host institution:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art  Search this
Subject:
Almaraz, Carlos  Search this
Physical description:
147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2017
Notes:
"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."
"Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA"--Colophon.
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 6-December 3, 2017."
Contents:
Foreword / Michael Govan -- Playing with Fire / Howard N. Fox -- Plates -- The Artist's Journey : The Life of Carlos Almaraz / Elsa Flores Almaraz, with Jeffrey J. Rangel -- A Life Transfigured in Words : Selections from the Journals of Carlos Almaraz / Compiled by Elsa Flores Almaraz -- Other Voices : Almaraz's Legacy / Compiled by Marielos Kluck
Summary:
'Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz' is the first full- length monograph devoted to an artist known for both his politically engaged cultural production as well as his vibrant, highly sought-after studio art, particularly his scenes of car crashes and pastoral depictions of L.A.'s Echo Park. Among the leading figures whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with works for the United Farm Workers and cofounded the important artists collective Los Four. Although he saw himself as an activist, Almaraz straddled multiple- and often contradictory-identities that drew from divergent cultures and approaches, and his work became less overtly political and more personal, psychological, dreamlike, and even mystical as he evolved artistically. The book features more than 60 works, mostly from the late 1970s through 1989, the year of the artist's untimely death at age 48, as well as selections from his journals and recollections from numerous colleagues and friends who knew him throughout his career.00Exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (06.08.-03.12.2017).
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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