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 Día 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.
Edited by:
Tatiana Reinoza,
Karen Mary Davalos
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.089kg
ISBN: 9780520390867
ISBN 10: 0520390865
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 25 April 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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: Ibañez 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 Hernández 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 Dávila Arlene Dávila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza Atelier History Self Help Graphics & Art Timeline Further Reading List of Contributors Index
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.
Reviews for Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking
"""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 *"
