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Article: Chicano art on the move: with its roots in political activism, Chicano art documents the evolution of the Mexican-American experience.(Chicano Art)
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- Art Business News
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- November 1, 2003
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For Americans outside the southwestern United States, the word "Chicano" might first bring to mind Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' movement of the 1960s and '70s. But for many Americans of Mexican background, Chicano designates a complex and evolving cultural identity that has been pointedly expressed in art.
"A Chicano is a Mexican-American with attitude," said art scholar Gary Keller, himself a Chicano. The Chicano identity formed among many Mexican-Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and the United Farm Workers' campaign on behalf of migrant workers. Prevalent artistic mediums of that period--the mural and the poster--reflected the political ...