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Title
Pintando la Frontera (detail)
Creator
UTI, Artist
Contributor
UTI, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1993
1993-01-01
1993-12-31
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
A large aerosol mural extends across an entire brick wall and around the corner. Detail is of the portion of the mural around the corner from the "Pintando la Frontera" portion. It depicts, from left to right, a nude woman behind barbed wire in front of a cityscape, (text in the sky above the city reads, "Ciudad Desnuda / Madre Tierra que Grita / Niños de la Calle Se Pierden / En la Miseria de la Ciudad... / ...Un Alurin / Tipo Los Doors / We Live Al Otro lado / En El Mundo de Los Sueños / Donde cualquier Cosa / Puede Pasar... / Los Antepasados / Creando un Cambio / Un Futureo / Un Nuevo Amanecer") a child, a bearded man with long hair (possibly Jim Morrison), a bomb by Nuke, a calavera, the acronym "FZLN", Emiliano Zapata, a UFO, a depiction of Carlos Salinas de Gortari as the chupacabras with the word "El Chupa Patria", and a bomb by UTI. Text above the FZLN reads, "¡¡Paz Justicia Democracia Dignidad!!"
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/hb9s2012qs
CEMA 103
Subject
Aerosol
Barbed wire
Border art
Chicano art
Chicanos
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)
Graffiti
Hip-hop
Inner cities
Landscapes (representations)
Fire in art
Mexican American art
Mexican American Border Region
Mexican Americans
Mural Art
Nudes
Poetry
Politicians
Chicano Movement
Revolutionaries
Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919
Salinas de Gortari, Carlos
Morrison, Jim, 1943-1971
Place
Tijuana (Mexico)

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