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Title: La Placa
Creator: Rubio, Alex, Artist
Contributor: Rubio, Alex, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 2002-11-05
2002-11-13
November 5-13, 2002
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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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: The image depicts my hand holding my old homemade tattoo machine, I clipped the roller ball point pen off a bic pen and threaded a sharpened guitar wire through the pen tube. The wire was then attached to the spindle of a hair dryer motor which were taped to a bent spoon which served as a handle. I used to work on homemade tattoos with original designed, back in the early to mid eighty, in my barrio at the Mirasol Courts in the Westside of San Antonio. Colors used: Pantone AOOE-C, Pantone 414C, Pantone 416C, Pantone 417C, Pantone 418C, Pantone 418C, Pantone Black, T-Black, and Clear Gloss.
Coventry Rag, 290 gms. I-size: 16" x 22"; P-size: 20" x 26"; Ed#: 4/72, 6/72; prnt: José Alpuche; mtrx: 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/hb1p300739
CEMA 3
Language: Spanish
Subject: Chicano art
Chicanos
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Prints
Tattooing in art
Graphic arts
Posters
Religion in art
Women in art
Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)

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