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Playing with Fire: Paintings


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Playing with Fire: Paintings

Contributors:

By (Author) Howard N. Fox
Contributions by Elsa Flores Almaraz
Contributions by Maya Almaraz
Contributions by Barbara Carrasco
Contributions by Fritz A. Frauchiger
Contributions by Dan Guerrero
Contributions by Judith Hernandez
Contributions by Craig Krull
Contributions by Gina Lobaco
Contributions by Marielos Kluck

ISBN:

9783791356853

Publisher:

Prestel

Imprint:

Prestel

Publication Date:

7th August 2017

Country:

Germany

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Individual artists, art monographs
Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
Paintings and painting

Dewey:

759.13

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

144

Dimensions:

Width 235mm, Height 270mm

Description

This book celebrates Carlos Almaraz, one of the most influential Los Angeles artists of the 1970s and 1980s. Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the first full- length monograph devoted to an artist known for both his politically engaged cultural production as well as his vibrant, highly sought-after studio art, particularly his scenes of car crashes and pastoral depictions of L.A.'s Echo Park. Among the leading figures whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with works for the United Farm Workers and cofounded the important artists collective Los Four. Although he saw himself as an activist, Almaraz straddled multiple- and often contradictory-identities that drew from divergent cultures and approaches, and his work became less overtly political and more personal, psychological, dreamlike, and even mystical as he evolved artistically. The book features more than 60 works, mostly from the late 1970s through 1989, the year of the artist's untimely death at age 48, as well as selections from his journals and recollections from numerous colleagues and friends who knew him throughout his career. AUTHOR: Howard N. Fox is former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 103 colour illustrations

Author Bio

HOWARD N. FOX is former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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