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Rupert Garcia, artist
American, 1941 -
(one calendar of twelve serigraph images- Frida Kahlo, Septiembre), 1975
screenprint
56 x 42 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1975.1.144

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publisher, Galeria de la Raza

Artist Credit: display

Artist Biography: Chicano poster artist. ~MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1981~MA, San Francisco State University, 1970~BA, San Francisco State University, 1968~Lives in Oakland, California.~~One founder of Chicano art movement. Actively involved in civil rights movement and opposition to Vietnam War. Defines himself as a "critical artist," or more simply, a concerned human being.~~A twenty-five-year body of work speaks to issues of a shrinking global village, where ethnic and national boundaries have begun to warp. Garcia~uses borrowed imagery, quotation, and juxtaposition of image and text as part of his strategy for critique and resistance.

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Septiembre Kahlo Frida images serigraph twelve of calendar one purchase Arts Graphic Achenbach America North States United Print screenprint Rupert Garcia American Galeria de la Raza 6233305137020048 A064937 1975.1.144 AFGA