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Title: El Coyote
Creator: Ochoa, Victor, Artist
Contributor: Ochoa, Victor, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985-02-22
1985-03-23
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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Description: From Border Realities Exhibition at Galería de la Raza. Part of Ochoa's Border Bingo/Lotería Fronteriza series, wherein 'border personalities" are typified in Lotería style. In El Coyote, the underground immigration agent is represented as the animal coyote, carrying a limp body in its mouth, which is on the other side of a barbed wire fence from the rest of its body.
Cat.9 014
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
Painting
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb1n39n9gv
CEMA 4
Language: Spanish
Subject: Border art
Fences in art
Barbed wire
Chicano art
Chicanos
Immigration
Immigration Regulation and Control
Coyotes (immigrant smugglers)
Mexican American Border Region
Lotería (Game)
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Paintings
Place: San Francisco (Calif.)

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