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Catalog for Playing with Fire: Painting by Carlos Almaraz
- Item Number
- 119
- Estimated Value
- 45 USD
- Opening Bid
- 15 USD
Item Description
This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition
Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from August 6 to December 3, 2017. This monograph is 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 (1941–1989) 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.
It was written and edited by Howard Fox, with contributions from Elsa Flores Almaraz, Marielos Kluck, and Maya Almaraz.
Part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at LACMA series.
- Hardcover
- 144 pages, 9.12 x 10.62 inches
- 100 color illustrations
- 2017
Among the leading figures whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz (1941–1989) 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.
It was written and edited by Howard Fox, with contributions from Elsa Flores Almaraz, Marielos Kluck, and Maya Almaraz.
Part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at LACMA series.
- Hardcover
- 144 pages, 9.12 x 10.62 inches
- 100 color illustrations
- 2017
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