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Title
Cosmic Clowns, Quetzalcoatl, and The Tree of Life
Creator
Adame, Felipe, Artist
Contributor
Adame, Felipe, Artist
Aranda, Guillermo, Artist
Barbosa, Felipe "Felipón", Artist
Castañeda, Tomás, Artist
De la Rosa, Pablo, Artist
Felix, Charles, Artist
Roman, Arturo, Artist
Torero, Mario, Artist
Mural Team from Los Angeles Estrada Courts Mural Project, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1978
1978-01-01
1978-12-31
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
Prigoff (James) slide collection
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.
Consult repository for copyright holder 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
Description
Three freeway support columns side-by-side. Cosmic Clowns features a planet and three "alien" faces framed by a pair of hands, below which is a heart with an arrow through it and a snake wrapped around it. Very bottom is a phantasmal figure in white. Los Niños Del Mundo depicts two Quetzalcoatl heads facing outwards, a human figure holding a brush and palette apparently painting large fields of color. The Tree of Life has a fetus crowned by the four directions symbol, faces flanking. A row of people on either side. Below the central image is a tree whose roots grow into water where people bathe. Mario Torero restored Cosmic Clowns in 1992. Guillermo Rosete, Guillermo Aranda, Felipe Adame, and Vidal Aguirre restored Tree of Life also in 1992
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: James Prigoff c/o California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Library – CEMA, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106 Phone: (805) 893-8563, E-mail: cema@library.ucsb.edu
Type
image
Form/Genre
35mm slide
Murals
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb9p3012x7
CEMA 103
Language
English
Nahuatl languages
Subject
Aztec gods
Chicano art
Chicanos
Clocks and watches in art
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Mural Art
Quetzalcoatl (Aztec deity)
Children's art
Place
San Diego (Calif.)

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