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Rupert Garcia, artist
American, 1941 -
San Jose Museum of Art/ New Wing Inauguration/ 1 June 1991, 1991
color offset lithograph poster
66 x 50.8 cm (image); 76.6 x 58.7 cm (sheet)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marcus 1991.1.170

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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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