Spirit : the life and art of Jesse Trevino / Anthony Head ; with a foreword by Henry Cisneros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Head, Anthony, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Cisneros, Henry, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Treviño, Jesse, 1946-.

Treviño, Jesse.

Mexican American artists--Texas--San Antonio--Biography.

Mexican American artists.

Artists--Texas--San Antonio--Biography.

Artists.

Artists with disabilities--Texas--San Antonio--Biography.

Artists with disabilities.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Biography.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Texas--San Antonio.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]

Summary:

As he lay bleeding in a Vietnamese rice paddy, his right arm shredded by shrapnel, artist Jesse Treviño realized that he wanted to honor and preserve his family and his cultural heritage through his artwork. After receiving a Purple Heart and undergoing two years of rehabilitative therapy and the amputation of his right forearm--including his painting hand--Treviño enrolled in San Antonio College, determined to learn how to draw and paint with his left hand. In 1974 he produced the impressive La Historia Chicana, a one hundred-foot-long work embracing six centuries of Mexican American heritage now on display inside the Sueltenfuss Library at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Since then, Treviño has completed many more paintings and public artworks, including Spirit of Healing, the nine-story hand-cut tile mosaic that graces Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital in downtown San Antonio. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, and the San Antonio Museum of Art. Anthony Head's sensitive and elegant biography now offers readers an intimate view of the artist's life. Head captures Treviño's determination, artistic vision, and the deep pride in his Chicano heritage that he transmits to the world through his creations. Spirit: The Life and Art of Jesse Treviño promises to engage and inspire readers with its vivid portrayal of this triumph of art and the human spirit.

Contents:

Foreword: Prospect Hill-the West Side's Foundation / Henry Cisneros

Introduction: In Country (February 23, 1967) / Anthony Head

The LBJ Years: Mexicans and Americans (1946-1961)

West Side graffiti (1962-1965)

The best in New York (1965-1966)

Vietnam 1966 (1966-1968)

Aztlan de San Antonio: Black canvas (1968-1972)

Chicano Spring (1971-1974)

"Who's going to buy that?" (1974-1979)

Let's get on with it (1979-1989)

West Side storyteller: Museum peace (1990-1995)

Spirit and loss (1996-1999)

Of murals, Mexico, and immortality (1999-2012)

Afterword: Hay más tiempo que vida

Acknowledgments

Appendix: A partial chronology of Jesse Trevino's artwork.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-710-8