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Title: Luna Roja
Creator: Gallegos, Adriana, Artist
Contributor: Gallegos, Adriana, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1998
1998-01
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: Headless woman's torso wrapped in barbed wire. Two green leaves are around her and a red moon behind her body.
Colors used: 1. Yellow, 2. Green, 3. Red, 4. Purple, 5. Sienna, 6. Light Sienna, 7. Dark Green, 8. Burgandy - Crimson, 9. Brown. "'Luna Roja' is part of a border series representing the psychological manifestation of the border experience on the body. Here the woman is incomplete, standing between borders. The barbed wire pierces her as it does the leaves of the maguey plant growing out of her. Her experience is recorded and witnessed by the red moon."
4/52, 6/52; Signed;print: José Alpuche; chopmark: Lower left corner.
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Type: image
Form/Genre: Screen Prints
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb3c600640
CEMA 3
Language: Spanish
Subject: Art, Abstract
Women
Biculturalism
Chicana art
Mexican American art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Chicanas
Chicano art
Place: Los Angeles, (Calif.)

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