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Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Photographs Assemblage of two "1992" performance stills advertising the performance. "1992" a Performance Trilogy by Guillermo Gómez-Peña UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California)
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image
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Black and white negative; 4 x 5 inches
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ark:/20775/bb17440812
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No linguistic content
Subject
Costumes Native American Performance art Microphone Advertisements Humor Imperialism Headdresses Gesture Satire (artistic device) Multiculturalism Political art
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