Description
A compelling blend of art history, social analysis, and personal testimony, Creative Collectives presents a new paradigm for understanding Chicana/o studies. By following the artistic and ideological journeys of two groups of northern California Chicana artists, Mar a Ochoa argues that the women involved in these collectives created complex images whose powerful visual social commentary sprang from the daily experiences of their lives.
Ochoa's artistic narrative first focuses on Mujeres Muralistas, a pathbreaking San Francisco group of mural painters organized in the early 1970s at the height of the Chicana/o Movement. The story then turns its attention to Co-Madres Artistas, a group of artists who came together in the 1990s after spending decades tending their families, becoming successful in their careers, and launching key Chicana/o cultural institutions in the Sacramento Valley. Ochoa tells the stories of the individual members of these collectives to show how they combined art and activism.
Through an innovative application of oral history interviews, a fascinating compilation of individual and collective stories emerges. Creative Collectives is notable for its skillful weaving of personal recollections, representational analysis of mural and easel painting, and social movement narration.
Author: Maria Ochoa
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 12/30/2003
Pages: 159
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.66w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9780826321107
ISBN10: 0826321100
BISAC Categories:
- Art | American | General
- Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms | General
- Art | Subjects & Themes | General