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Mexican American
Art
The following guide provides Web site links, a list of selected
books, and access to online periodical articles about this subject.
The Web site links have been researched, evaluated, and annotated by
Rio Hondo College Librarians. The Librarians have specifically
selected these Web sites to meet the research needs of Rio Hondo
College students
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Archives
of American Art - Quick Reference to Oral History Interviews
http://artarchives.si.edu/oralhist/oralhist.htm
Contains the text of
interviews of selected artists. This site includes the text of an oral
history interview of Judy Baca.
Chicano
Art - A Resource Guide
http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/chicanoArt.html
Provides an overview of Chicano Art in California. Contains links to
Proyecto CARIDAD. This guide also includes an annotated list of
material for further reading.
Public Art in Los Angeles - Los Angeles Murals
http://www.publicartinla.com/LA_murals/
Provides links for murals organized by region. Includes
Frank Romero, Richard T. Jimenez, Eduardo Carillo, Luis Becerra.
Romo Collection of Mexican American Art Prints, 1981-
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00110/lac-00110.html
Collection of original Mexican American silkscreens,
lithographs, and other are prints. many prints were produced
at Self-Help Graphics Studio in Los Angeles, CA and Coronado Studios
in Austin, TX. Several images from the collection available
from the Web site. Housed in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin
American Collection at UT Austin [other materials about Mexican and
Mexican American culture and art available at
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/]
SPARC
(Social and Public Art Resource Center)
http://www.sparcmurals.org/
The Web site for SPARC, a 25-year-old non-profit
organization located in Venice, California. There is information
about mural artists and images of murals that are concentrated in
the greater Los Angeles area. The site provides a history as well as
image of Willie Herron's "The Wall That Cracked Open."
A
World of Art
http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/wabios/baca.html
This is the Web site developed for the PBS series,
"A World of Art." The site provides a link to a
biographical sketch of Judy Baca. The site also includes links to
related art Web sites.
Books
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The following books can be located in the
Rio Hondo College Library.
Reference Books
Non-circulating:
Hispanic art in the United States : thirty contemporary painters &
sculptors
Call number: Ref N6538.H58B43 1987
Library Catalog
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Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo
College Library.
Articles
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The Rio Hondo College Library
provides online access to full-text articles through our
online databases. Please note: you must be a Rio Hondo College
student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.
The sample searches
and articles below are from the
ProQuest database. If you are viewing this
subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the
links below. To gain access if you are at home or off-campus,
first click here:
https://rioweb.riohondo.edu/library/. Input your student
ID number and password [your birthdate]. You will see a
list of all the online databases to which you have access. Click on ProQuest and enter the database. You may conduct your own
searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and
click on any of the links below:
SUB(hispanic americans) AND SUB(art)
Researched and evaluated by:
A.Enright,
Librarian, 2001
last update: C. Oldham, Librarian, 12/2009
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