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Title
Juego De Pelotá(sic)
Creator
Urista, Arturo, Artist
Contributor
Urista, Arturo, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1987
1987-07-19
1987-07-24
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
Colors used: 1. Blue gray (light), 2. Light Blue, 3. Yello, 4. Red, 5. Black, 6. Blue. "'Juego de Pelotá' is a socal historical perspecive on the competitive games being played emotionally. The images shows [sic] the consequences of the games that never end. The image begins on the top left were [sic] Mexico's acient [sic] ball game is played and the *winner is honored to be sacraficed to the gods. The godess [sic] (right figure) rips apart a bird symbolizing man's ego when losing. The ball is being kicked into the chamber of a pistol whiched [sic] is being fired throught [sic] the body of a male holding a dagger that is used for ritural [sic] sacrafices. (*The winner is never shown.)
Westinds; I-size: 19" x 25"; P-size: 20" x 26"; Ed#: 42/57; Signed;, Inscription in pencil on the left side, on the left corner below the image, and on the right side below the image; they read: "Juego De Pelotá, 42/57, Arturo Urista, 87"print: Oscar Duardo; chopmark: embossed "SHG" on the lower right hand corner.
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Type
image
Form/Genre
Screen Prints
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb9g5009ss
CEMA 3
Language
Spanish
Subject
Mexican American art
Memory in art
Mayans
Chicano art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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