Playing with fire : paintings by Carlos Almaraz / [curated with essay and added commentary by] Howard N. Fox ; with an essay by Elsa Flores Almaraz, with Jeffrey J. Rangel ; contributions by Maya Almaraz, Barbara Carrasco, Patrick Ela, Fritz A. Frauchiger, Marielos Gluck, Dan Guerrero, Mark Guerrero, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Judithe Hernández, Craig Krull, Gina Lobaco, Cheech Marin, Suzanne Muchnic, Louie F. Pérez, Aimée Brown Price, Monroe Price, Joan Agajanian Quinn, John Valadez, and Jeffrey Vallance ; featuring excerpts from the journals of Carlos Almaraz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almaraz, Carlos, artist, author.

Contributor:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)

Standardized Title:

Paintings. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almaraz, Carlos--Exhibitions.

Almaraz, Carlos.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Paintings by Carlos Almaraz

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, California : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

'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.00Exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (06.08.-03.12.2017).

Contents:

Foreword / Michael Govan

Playing with Fire / Howard N. Fox

Plates

The Artist's Journey : The Life of Carlos Almaraz / Elsa Flores Almaraz, with Jeffrey J. Rangel

A Life Transfigured in Words : Selections from the Journals of Carlos Almaraz / Compiled by Elsa Flores Almaraz

Other Voices : Almaraz's Legacy / Compiled by Marielos Kluck.

Notes:

"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."

"Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 6-December 3, 2017."

Contains:

Fox, Howard N. Playing with fire.

Almaraz, Carlos. Paintings. Selections.

ISBN:

9783791356853

3791356852

OCLC:

976406110