Synopses & Reviews
This beautifully produced 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 wellas for the novice adult. Art aficionados will relish the striking, full-color images in this coffee-table-quality volume. Themes include community values, borders and biculturalism, spirituality, personal feelings and shared experiences, cultural icons, and nontraditional representations.This volume is an outgrowth of the highly successful, award-winning project Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture, and Education, published in 2002 (see page 7). The accompanying exhibition runs May 1 through September 19, 2004, at the Mesa Southwest Museum in Mesa, Arizona, and is planned for an extended tour both nationally and internationally.