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Title
Día de los Muertos (detail)
Creator
Avalos, David, Artist
Contributor
Avalos, David, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1982
1982-01-01
1982-12-31
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
Centro Cultural 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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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
From the California Works Premium List Exhibition at the California State Fair, Sacramento. This massive mask was made for Día de los Muertos. A devil is sitting on his throne, which becomes like a hat for the face below it. A taqueria, "Raul's Auto Repair," a nightclub named "Mambo Rock" and other details create an assemblage that is rich in detail. Detail of assemblage-mask is of a serpent
Cat.1 010(5)
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: Centro Cultural de la Raza 2125 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101, 619-235-6135, 619-595-0034 fax, E-mail:centro@centroraza.com. Web: http://www.centroraza.com/
Type
image
Form/Genre
35mm slide
Assemblage (art)
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb62901051
CEMA 12
Language
Spanish
Subject
Chicano art
Chicanos
Día de los muertos
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Sculpture
Masks
Serpents in art
Place
Sacramento (Calif.)

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