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Title: Neo-Mexico
Creator: Ortega, Jerry, Artist
Contributor: Ortega, Jerry, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1998-03-19
1998-03-31
1998 Mar. 19-21 & 31
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: Man with scarf over mouth is walking through corn fields with the city in the background.
Colors used: 1. cyan blue (t), 2. magenta (t), 3. yellow shade green (t), 4. violet (t), 5. ochre orange (t), 6. white dark blue (t). "In relation to Siqueiros, 'America Tropical.' The indigenous peoples of Mexico battling the U.S. Corporation sweet thanks to N.A.F.T.A. the power of nature (corn, land, sun) againsts (sic.) the nan-created elements (helicopters, big-money Corps. (sic.), tanks, destruction of Tiocoli, temples/pyramids). Continues..." "Neo-Mexico like Neo-Liberalism, the new style city making way for new bisinesses down to the tip of its country. But the E.Z.L.N will not let this be another exploitation game by the corrupt Government (sic.). The indigenous woman calling the power of Ishim (Maize) breaking through a Mowey sign highway dropping the tanker, the attack of heavy helicopters sent by the U.S. to supposedly stop Narco-trafficing when, in reality, they are killing its native people The struggle continues..." J. Ortega
Atelier 31; I-size: 22 1/8" x 16 1/2"; P-size: 26 1/8" x 20"; Ed#: 4/63, 6/63; one of two posters Signed;print: José Alpuche; chopmark: lower left.
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Type: image
Form/Genre: Screen Prints
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb438nb31n
CEMA 3
Language: English
Subject: Mexican American art
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)
Chicano art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Siqueiros, David Alfaro
Marcos, subcomandante
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)

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