{"product_id":"self-help-graphics-at-fifty-9780520390874","title":"Self Help Graphics at Fifty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe definitive historyof 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 \u0026amp; 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 histori\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The contributors frame \u003ci\u003eSelf Help Graphics \u003c\/i\u003eas 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Design and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Intangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art Ecologies\u003cbr\u003e Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS \u0026amp; ART\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibañez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art Tradition\u003cbr\u003e     JV Decemvirale\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas\/os \u003cbr\u003e     and Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e     Adriana Katzew\u003cbr\u003e 3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of \u003cbr\u003e     Solidarity\u003cbr\u003e     Mary Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO: THE ATELIER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help Graphics\u003cbr\u003e     Claudia Zapata\u003cbr\u003e 5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LA\u003cbr\u003e     Robb Hernández\u003cbr\u003e 6. Self Help Graphics \u0026amp; Art’s Contributions to Chicana\/o\/x Art Histories \u003cbr\u003e     Karen Mary Davalos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of Angels\u003cbr\u003e     Kency Cornejo\u003cbr\u003e 8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990s\u003cbr\u003e     Olga U. Herrera\u003cbr\u003e 9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market—a Conversation\u003cbr\u003e     with Arlene Dávila\u003cbr\u003e     Arlene Dávila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Atelier History\u003cbr\u003e Self Help Graphics \u0026amp; Art Timeline\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402966311255,"sku":"9780520390874","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520390874.jpg?v=1730481983","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/self-help-graphics-at-fifty-9780520390874","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}