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Title: (title unknown)
Creator: Gamboa, Harry, Artist
Contributor: Gamboa, Harry, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982-08-07
1982-08-31
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: Galería 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 ASCO 1982 Exhibition of Los Angeles conceptual artists, organized by René Yáñez at Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, August 1982. Photo silkscreen reproduction of an elementary school class photo. Text reads, "I had often wondered why we were forced to sit in a strange room in order to listen to odd statements by a teacher who would have been a victimless criminal had she she [sic] not had her not had her [sic] credentials. I'm not certain that she ever taught us anything other than how to make a rediculous [sic] rifle out of old broom sticks which all of us were ordered to paint brown in tempra. I threw my rifle out of the window and was supported by only a few of my closest friends and by one of the girls who liked me during my periods of childhood rage. My rifle landed on the janitor's head killing him instantly. We all hid his body in the cafeteria. The next day they served us stew but none of us would eat the food since it probably tasted like custodian soup. One day, a rumor broke out that claimed the reputations of some of [the] classmates. It seems that someone spotted a few of the boys beating up the pet rabbit and then sawing off its feet with the same tools that we had been taught to use while building our silly rifles. The most amazing thing was that the rabbit survived and later on when things cooled down a bit, three of my friends and I would shake those lucky feet in front of that stubby rabbit during our lunch break. None of us were ever caught and the janitor was never missed. By the end of this particular school year some of the classmates had learned how to use real guns and eventually wounded a substitute teacher during the Pledge of Allegiance. Some were held as hostages before they were allowed to go on summer vacation. When these unfortunate students were located in a nearby ditch it was discovered that they had been shot by a fully loaded broom handle."
Cat.11 010(2)
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: Galeria de la Raza 2857 24th Street San Francisco, California 94110 t: 415.826.8009 Phone: 1-415-826-8009 E-mail: info@galeriadelaraza.org Web: http://www.galeriadelaraza.org
Type: image
Form/Genre: 35mm slide
Screen Prints
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb958011nb
CEMA 4
Language: English
Subject: Graphic arts
Chicano art
Chicanos
Children in art
Hispanic Americans Education
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Prints
Death in art
Education
Place: San Francisco (Calif.)

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