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Title: Cliché Inversion
Creator: Memphis, Artist
Contributor: Memphis, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 2002-07-17
2002-07-19
Publication Information: California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, cema@library.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-8563, URL: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection: Self-Help Graphics and Art archives
Rights Information: Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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Description: "The shape of the tree is formed with the word "TU CASA ES MI CASA". Poring [sic] out from the leaves is a deranged pig wearing a poor ball helmet and holding a carfe football over the head of a dazed and angry canary who sits in his broken shell on the ground with egg yolk dripping off of his head from the other eggs the pig has cast to the ground." "CLICHE' inversion takes the familiar CLICHE 'MI CASA ES TU CASA' and fups it to now !AY 'TU CASA ES MI CASA'. This statement is the pigs spin in the phrase as he has scaled up a tree and kicked out its inhabitants (A SMALL CANARY) and its unhatched siblings with no regard to the fact that the birds were there first to say nothing of the fact that in general, trees are homes to birds, even squirrels but never pigs. Symbolically, the pig with his football helmet represent the greed of capitalistic developers - specifically the powers that be behind the football stadium currently being proposed for downtown Los Angeles. The helpless canary is both bewilder[ed] and angry at this hostile take over. The canary represents the people who live in the proposed stadium site. The Broken eggs that ( ) the landscape are literally bird embryos. These represent the destruction of dreams, futures and quite possibly the lives of those persons ( ) in 'STADIUM LAND' and the ripple that this variety of displacement ( ) has for the residents children/family." Colors used: Black, Bright Red, Crayola Yellow, Medium Brown, Forest Green, and Bubble gum Pink.
S P; Coventry Rag, 290 gms; I-size: 22" x 16"; P-size: 26" x 20": Ed#: 4/73, 6/73; prnt: José Alpuche; mrtx: destroyed; signed. lower left; The artist of any work retains all rights to that work. Copyright has not been assigned to the Regents of the University of California. The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. No further reproduction is permitted without prior written permission by the artist or copyright holder. Any requests for permission to reproduce this piece must be directed to: Self-Help Graphics & Art 3802 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90063 For further information: (323) 881-6444 Fax: (323) 881-6447 info@selfhelpgraphics.com
Type: image
Form/Genre: 35mm slide
Screen Prints
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb038nb2k6
CEMA 3
Language: English
Spanish
Subject: Chicano art
Chicanos
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Prints
Eviction
Sports in art
Animals in art
Dwellings in art
Graphic arts
Posters
Money in art
Community
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)

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