Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago

My Life, My Work, My Art

AvJose Gamaliel Gonzalez,Marc Zimmerman

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Engelska, 2010

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Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, 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 a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González 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. Born near Monterey, Mexico, and raised in a steel mill town in northwest Indiana, González 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 Artístico Chicano (MARCH) in the 1970s and Mi Raza Arts Consortium (MIRA) in the 1980s. With numerous illustrations, this book portrays González''s all-but-forgotten community advocacy, his commitments and conflicts, and his long struggle to bring quality arts programming to the city. By turns dramatic and humorous, his narrative also covers his bouts of illness, his relationships with other artists and arts promoters, and his place within city and barrio politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252090141
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

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Jóse Gamaliel González is a Chicago-based artist and arts organizer. Marc Zimmerman teaches in the department of modern and classical languages at the University of Houston. His many books include U.S. Latino Literatures and Orbis/Urbis Latino: Los "Hispanos" en las ciudades de los Estados Unidos.

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"A fascinating personal and artistic odyssey. González's story is about community art and community organizing, how art informs politics, and, conversely, how politics informs art."--Victor Alejandro Sorell, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Chicago State University"A unique contribution to the story of Latino arts. Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago reveals a highly personal story of one participant's involvement in events that illuminate the difficulties, obstacles, and conflicts he experienced in the arts movement."--Theresa Delgadillo, assistant professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University

Innehållsförteckning

CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionInvocation: Some Framing Thoughts1. The Early Years (1933-55)2. From High School to Notre Dame (1955-71)3. The MARCH Years (1971-79)4. Raíces, MIRA, and the MFAC (1979-92)5. Art, Work, and Health (1990-2007)NotesWorks CitedIndex