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Title
Niña Héroe
Creator
Norte, Armando, Artist
Contributor
Norte, Armando, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1992
1992-01
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
A skull rendered as a girl, probably 'Adelita', is holding a gun and staring at the viewer. The figure is wearing a hat, hoop earrings, two braids and two rows of bullets accross her chest. A doll is lying on the ground by the girl's feet.
Colors used: 1. Lt Brown, 2. Burgandy, 3. Pink, 4. Blk (sic.), 5. Tan (flesh), 6. Dk. Brown. "'Niña Héroe' represents a modern female spirit with the traditional elements of the Mexican past. A little girl in a (tattered) pink party dress, calavera make-up and bone-ainted body stocking, dicards her doll for a wooden toy rifle. A heart and skull loom behind her. Love and Death. She stands proud, facing the future with a sense of strength and hope." A.Norte
47/68, 60/68; Signed;, Inscription in pencil below image area reads: "47/68, 'Niña Héroe', Norte, 92" ; chopmark: embossed "SHG" insignia located in lower right corner outside of image area.
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Type
image
Form/Genre
Screen Prints
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb967nb6fh
CEMA 3
Language
Spanish
Subject
Skull in art
Children in art
Dolls in art
Violence
Memory in art
Chicano art
Mexican American art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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