Carmen Lomas Garza(1st Edition) (A Ver) by ConstanceCortez, Chon A. Noriega Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 2010 by Chicano Studies Research Center ISBN-13: 978-0-89551-125-6, ISBN: 0-89551-125-8
"Widely known for works that celebrate the traditions of her family and her South Texas Latino community, Carmen Lomas Garza has been active as a painter, printmaker, muralist, and children\u2019s book illustrator since the 1970s. Born in Kingsville, Texas, she experienced institutionalized racism in a segregated school system that punished Mexican American students for speaking Spanish. Through her art, which draws on her childhood memo ..."
"Cheech Marin, well known for his three decades of work as a comedian, actor, director, and musician, has long championed Chicano artists and been a collector of their work. This breakthrough publication will be available in both hardcover and paperback formats. The exhibition features Marin's collection of over 30 artists' work, and their paintings that depict Hispanic culture, religion, and politics with brilliant color and emotion. In ..."
"Cheech Marin, well known for his three decades of work as a comedian, actor, director, and musician, has long championed Chicano artists and been a collector of their work. This breakthrough publication will be available in both hardcover and paperback formats. The exhibition features Marin's collection of over 30 artists' work, and their paintings that depict Hispanic culture, religion, and politics with brilliant color and emotion. In ..."
The Mayan Enigma (Mysteries of the Ancient World) by ConstanceCortez Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 1997 by Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrate Import ISBN-13: 978-0-297-82307-0, ISBN: 0-297-82307-8
Carmen Lomas Garza(1st Edition) (A Ver) by ConstanceCortez, Chon A. Noriega Hardcover, 108 Pages, Published 2010 by Chicano Studies Research Center ISBN-13: 978-0-89551-124-9, ISBN: 0-89551-124-X
"Widely known for works that celebrate the traditions of her family and her South Texas Latino community, Carmen Lomas Garza has been active as a painter, printmaker, muralist, and children’s book illustrator since the 1970s. Born in Kingsville, Texas, she experienced institutionalized racism in a segregated school system that punished Mexican American students for speaking Spanish. Through her art, which draws on her childhood memories ..."
""Transcendental Train Yard" is a collection of color serigraphs accompanied by bilingual poems, in Spanish and English, inspired by the artwork. "Transcendental Train Yard" provides the reader a glimpse of the role the railroad and the carpas (itinerant vaudeville troupes) played in the Mexican American community. Artist Marta Sanchez and poet Norma Elia Cantu collaboratively render images and words that poignantly reflect specific peri ..."
"A conceptual and multimedia artist known for her writing, photography, painting, installation, and public art, Celia Alvarez Munoz has been invited to exhibit and to create site-specific works for more than fifty major U.S. museums and was included in the 1991 Whitney Biennial. In her work Munoz draws on family and communal memories to explore her own experiences growing up Catholic and Mexican American on the Texas-Mexico border, as we ..."
"A conceptual and multimedia artist known for her writing, photography, painting, installation, and public art, Celia Alvarez Munoz has been invited to exhibit and to create site-specific works for more than fifty major U.S. museums and was included in the 1991 Whitney Biennial. In her work Munoz draws on family and communal memories to explore her own experiences growing up Catholic and Mexican American on the Texas-Mexico border, as we ..."
"This special issue of Ethnohistory focuses on the Caribbean basin and present articles that are both archaeological and historical in nature as well as those informed by the current contexts of local identity. The purely geographical emphasis allows comparisons across a region that has been notoriously fragmented in cultural and historical terms."
"This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers. The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or coauthor of more than 200 books or articles on the Maya, Schele served as the chief disseminator of knowledge to the general public about this anci ..."
"The first monograph on the work of Californiaborn artist, Gilbert "Magu" Luján, this book reveals how Magu’s iconic Chicano art influenced contemporary art and culture. The work of this important sculptor, spokesperson, and teacher is seen from a variety of cultural perspectives in this book, which draws upon the artist’s entire oeuvre and places well-known works alongside unpublished drawings, paintings, sculptures, notebooks, and stat ..."
"Die alten Ägypter hofften auf ein Weiterleben nachdem Tode. Sorgfältig wurden die Körper auf die Ewigkeit vorbereitet - nicht nur Menschen, sogar Tiere. Rosalie David schildert in diesem Buch, wie die Wissenschaft mit modernsten Untersuchungsmethoden die Geheimnisse der Mumien löste und was uns Mumien über das Alltagsleben in der Antike verraten. Mit vielen Farbfotos"