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Author Cordova, Cary

Title The Heart of the Mission : Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Real Life and the Nightlife in San Francisco's Latin Quarter -- Chapter 2. Freedom in the Beats: Latino Artists and the 1950s Counterculture -- Chapter 3. La Raza Unida: Pan- Latino Art and Culture in 1960s San Francisco -- Chapter 4. The Third World Strike and the Globalization of Chicano Art -- Chapter 5. Hombres y Mujeres Muralistas on a Mission: Painting Latino Identities in 1970s San Francisco -- Chapter 6. Th e Mission in Nicaragua: San Francisco Poets Go to War -- Chapter 7. The Activist Art of a Salvadoran Diaspora: Abstraction, War, and Memory in San Francisco -- Chapter 8. The Politics of Día de los Muertos: Mourning, Art, and Activism -- Epilogue: This Place Is Love -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary The Heart of the Mission is the first in-depth examination of the Latino arts renaissance in San Francisco's Mission District in the latter twentieth century. Using evocative oral histories and archival research, Cordova highlights the rise of a vibrant intellectual community grounded in avant-garde aesthetics and radical politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-299) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Hispanic American art -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century
Hispanic American artists -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century
Hispanic Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
ART -- American -- Hispanic American.
Hispanic American art
Hispanic American artists
Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity
SUBJECT Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject California -- San Francisco
California -- San Francisco -- Mission District
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017005484
ISBN 9780812294149
0812294149