!Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now

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A groundbreaking look at how Chicano graphic artists and their collaborators have used their work to imagine and sustain identities and political viewpoints during the past half century The 1960s witnessed the rise of the Chicano civil rights movement, or El Movimiento, and marked a new way of being a person of Mexican descent in the United Stat

E. Carmen Ramos is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's acting chief curator and curator of Latinx art. Her books include Tamayo: The New York Years and Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art. Tatiana Reinoza is assistant professor of art history at the University of Notre Dame. Terezita Romo is an art historian, curator, and writer. She is the author of Malaquias Montoya. Claudia E. Zapata is the Latinx art curatorial assistant at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

"Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore Grants in Publishing" "Finalist for the PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers" "Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association" "Winner of the ALAA Thoma-Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award, Association for Latin American Art" "A fat, beautifully illustrated catalog . . . [it] is a worthwhile artistic endeavor on its own."---Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times "[A] handsome book. . . . There's a looseness, a jagged brio that gives the images in !Printing the Revolution! a visual bang - a kind of primal pop."---Tim Francis Barry, Arts Fuse "One of the best catalogues of the year."---Tyler Green, Instagram