Chicana /O Murals of California: Indigenist Aesthetics and the Politics of Space, 1970--2000

By depicting images of indigenous culture and history from the Americas, these artists embraced an aesthetic that rewrote their place in U.S. history and society. Indigenism, as an ideology and aesthetic, emerged during the early decades of the twentieth century in various parts of Latin America, but Mexico in particular. Unlike in Mexico, however, for Chicanas/os, Indigenism was not an institution supported and endorsed officially, but rather a discourse occurring at the margins of U.S. dominant culture. Chicanana/o murals, for the most part, did not grace the walls of major public and government buildings; rather, they decorated the walls along the streets of the barrios and urban neighborhoods through out the country.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2003

Author dc:creator

• Latorre, Guisela Maria

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jordana Mendelson

• Education, Art

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3086109

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87368