Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago
Author： Gonzalez Jose Gamaliel
Publisher： University of Illinois Press
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9780252090141
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252035388
Subject： J1 Overview of World Art;K7 Americas History;K81 Biography
Keyword： 美洲史,世界各国艺术概况,传记
Language： ENG
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Description
Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over six years by friend Marc Zimmerman, Gonzalez looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home._x000B_Born near Monterrey, Mexico, and raised in a steel mill town in northwest Indiana, Gonzalez studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. Settling in Chicago, he founded two major art groups: El Movimiento ArtÃstico Chicano (MARCH) in the 1970s and Mi Raza Arts Consortium (MIRA) in the 1980s. _x000B_With numerous illustrations, this book portrays Gonzalez's all-but-forgotten community advocacy, his commitments and conflicts, and his long struggle to bring quality arts programming to the city.
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