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Book SynopsisTrade Review"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."
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Table of ContentsContents
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
