Walls of empowerment : Chicana/o indigenist murals of California /
Guisela Latorre.
- 1st ed.
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
- xiii, 292 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-282) and index.
Indigenism and Chicana/o muralism: the radicalization of an aesthetic -- The dialectics of continuity and disruption: Chicana/o and Mexican indigenist murals -- The Chicano movement and indigenist murals: the formation of a nationalist canon and identity -- Graffiti and murals: urban culture and indigenist glyphs -- The Chicana/o mural environment: indigenist aesthetics and urban spaces -- Gender, indigenism, and Chicana muralists -- Murals and postmodernism: post-movimiento, heterogeneity, and new media in Chicana/o indigenism.
Mexican American mural painting and decoration--Political aspects--California, Southern--20th century. Street art--California, Southern. Indians in art. Pintura mural mexicana. Arte indígena.