Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community [Paperback]

Mary Erickson (Author), Pat Villeneuve (Author), Gary D. Keller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2004

This beautifully produced coffee-table book showcases more than 120 works of Chicana and Chicano art and provides a good representation of the art movement for general readers as well as students. Created in part as a catalog for the 2004 exhibition of the same name, the book is also designed to serve as a useful tool for teaching Chicana/o art from the elementary grades through graduate school as well as for the novice adult. Art aficionados will relish the striking full-color images in this quality volume. Themes include community values, borders and biculturalism, spirituality, personal feelings and shared experiences, cultural icons, and nontraditional representations. This is the third volume in a series that began with the award-winning book Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture, and Education, published in 2002. The accompanying exhibition ran May 1 through September 19, 2004, at the Mesa Southwest Museum in Mesa, Arizona.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Bilingual Review Pr (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931010250
• ISBN-13: 978-1931010252
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #998,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent catalog and survey: 4.7 stars, August 5, 2011

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Peter D. Tillman (Taos, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community (Paperback)

I picked this up on a whim, and liked it more than I expected to. It's the catalog of a 2004 exhibit from ASU in Phoenix (which I missed, dammit) and has a lot of Good Stuff, very nicely reproduced. One page of a print drew a double-take, the repro of the artist's pencilled sig was so good.

Anyway, next best thing to seeing the actual exhibit... I just looked around the web for samples, and basically failed to find any -- but I'll put a link in the comments to Laura Alvarez's "Double Agent Sirvienta," my favorite painting in the book. It turns out that DAS is "a spy posing as a maid on both sides of the border, whose narrative has more twists and turns than a Friday night telenovela. Since 1996, Alvarez has created paintings, prints, films, installations, and music about this character and her adventures." Cool beans, guys.

The art is basically free of political cant -- but the text certainly isn't, and there's an educational appendix that has such ominous features as "Interdisciplinary Transfer Potential". This stuff can be ignored, skimmed -- or savored, if it's your sort of thing -- but the art, which is what counts, is first-rate. The book itself is handsomely-produced, though the binding (a "perfect"-bound large-format paperback) is fragile.

Happy viewing--

Peter D. Tillman