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Title: Break It!
Creator: Luján, Otoño, Artist
Contributor: Luján, Otoño, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1993
1993-09-10
1993-09-14
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: A man and a woman are staring at the viewer ready to fight. In the background are red and white jagged stripes with light blue barbed wire running in the white area.
Colors used: 1. Red (opaque), 2. Blue-grey (opaque), 3. Yellow-Ochre (transparent), 4. Lavendar (transparent). "The young Chicano and young Chicana in this print represent two of many young people who have had enough shit from this gov't (sic.) and have united with a plan for a new society. They have realized that before they can change it (sic.) they must BREAK IT! (sic.)" O.Luján
Atelier 23; Coventry Rag 290 grams; I-size: 14" x 20"; P-size: 20" x 26"; Ed#: 4/56, 40/56; Signed;, Inscription in pencil below the image reads: "4/56, 'Break It', Otoño Luján, c/s, 1993"print: Otoño Luján; chopmark: embossed "SHG" below the image on the lower right.; #Prints: 2
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Type: image
Form/Genre: Screen Prints
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb1779n743
CEMA 3
Language: English
Subject: Symbolism
Border art
Chicano art
Mexican American art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)

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