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Title: Avoid Junk Food
Creator: Viramontes, Xavier, Artist
Contributor: Viramontes, Xavier, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1977
1977-01-01
1977-12-31
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: Galería De La Raza 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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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
Description: Mural in unknown media on a billboard outside the Galería de la Raza is split into four sections. At left are images of candy and soda with the words "Avoid Junk Food". Upper center is a black and white image of a woman and a child. Lower center is a "sign" with pictures of fruits reading, "Good Sources of Vitamin Oranges Lemons Limes Cantaloupe Berries Green Peppers Broccoli". Upper right is another "sign" reading, "Iron Rich Foods Brown Rice Beans Liver Kidneys Whole Wheat Bread dark Green Vegetables Dried Fruit Iron Fortified Cereals Pru[ne J]uice" Lower right are the characters R2D2 and C3PO from Star Wars.
Cat. 3 021(12)
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: Galeria de la Raza 2857 24th Street San Francisco, California 94110 t: 415.826.8009 Phone: 1-415-826-8009 E-mail: info@galeriadelaraza.org Web: http://www.galeriadelaraza.org
Type: image
Form/Genre: 35mm slide
Murals
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb0h4nb36m
CEMA 4
Language: English
Subject: Barrios
Chicano art
Chicanos
Food in art
Health in art
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Mural Art
Mural paintings
Neighborhoods
Nutrition
Diet
Star wars (Motion picture)
Robots
Children and adults in art
Health Education
Coca Cola (Trademark) in art
Fruit in art
Place: San Francisco (Calif.)

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