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020 $a9780895511508 (pbk.)
020 $a9780895511515 (cloth)
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050 00 $aTR655$b.V354 2013
082 00 $a709.2$aB$223
084 $aART000000$aART040000$aART015110$2bisacsh
100 1 $aGarcía, Ramón,$d1967-
245 10 $aRicardo Valverde /$cRamón García ; foreword by Chon A. Noriega.
264 1 $aLos Angeles :$bUCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press,$c2013.
300 $axv, 120 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aA ver : revisioning art history ;$vvolume 8
520 $a" At his untimely death in 1998, photographer Ricardo Valverde (b. 1946) had for almost three decades documented the various communities and social spaces of Los Angeles. Though he began this lifelong pursuit while still in college, capturing the streets of his South Central neighborhood and the urban landscape of downtown Los Angeles, it wasn't until the Watts Riots of 1965 that Valverde and his work became deeply political. But if his work became more political, it did so within an aesthetic that grew ever more critical of the tropes and institutions of documentary art. Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, this book--in the landmark A Ver: Revisioning Art History series--records the unfolding of Valverde's vision, from his first photographs of L.A. streets as repositories of the city's social history, to his socially and politically acute portraiture, to his surrealist-inflected mixed-media work late in his career, to his role in the formation of the community-based arts groups Self-Help Graphics & Art, Ojos, and Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous. Ramón García's essay offers a clear framework for understanding Valverde's art and life, along with a sense of the personal and social politics and history that influenced both so thoroughly. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Overview of the life and work of artist Ricardo Valverde"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aPortrait of the Artist -- Street Photography -- Portraiture -- Documenting Community -- Coda: Experimental Work.
650 0 $aPhotography, Artistic.
651 0 $aEast Los Angeles (Calif.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century$vPictorial works.
600 10 $aValverde, Ricardo,$d1946-1998$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aHispanic American photographers$vBiography.
650 7 $aART / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / American / Hispanic American.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / History / Contemporary (1945-).$2bisacsh