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Title
Por Qué
Creator
Márquez, Daniel, Artist
Contributor
Márquez, Daniel, Artist
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
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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
Man praying with sun on top of his head, stained glass window pieces from a church with an angel carrying one of them. Below is a farmer and barbed wire.
Colors used: 1. Light Blue, 2. Yellow, 3. Green, 4. Orange, 5. Ocre (sic.), 6. Purple, 7. Sky Blue, 8. Drk Blue, 9. Light Yellow. "'Por Que' on the edge of the abyss education without defenses drowning man's struggle born into reality metropolitan crime conquest religion death prophecy codes deciphered four directions four races green neutral center journeys without destiny diversely lines barriers walls fences mutilated culture mother country nostalgia there is no return fleeting angel prayer faith energy sun God who are we?" D. Marquez
Atelier 30; I-size: 16 x 22"; P-size: 20" x 26": Ed#: 4/55; Signed; chopmark: lower left.
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Type
image
Form/Genre
Screen Prints
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb3g500613
CEMA 3
Language
Spanish
Subject
Angels in art
Skull in art
Prayer in art
Farm Workers
Chicano art
Mexican American art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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