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Title
Heroes of War: lightboxes representing ribbons, awards and decorations
Creator
Lebrija, Gonzalo, 1972-
Contributor
InSite_05
Ragasol, Tania (Mexican art historian and curator)
Date Created and/or Issued
2005
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Sculpture and Installations
"Heroes of War," by Gonzalo Lebrija, is a video installation projected in the auditorium of the San Diego Veterans Museum in Balboa Park. Over a year before, Lebrija began working with veterans at the Veterans Home of California in Chula Vista. Gonzalo's goal was to intervene in the museum space, creating a curatorial discourse that approximates a creative group experience. Gonzalo participated in a number of reunions of former prisoners of war, or POWs. These experiences led him to explore the notion of military paraphernalia and veterans' narratives. Gonzalo filmed a number of individuals while they discussed the public recognition accorded to them and their actions as servicemen in times of war. --inSite_05
Born digital
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 188, DVD 01)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Veterans Museum, Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Light boxes
Form/Genre
memorials
public art
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb3518361w
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Military decorations
Political art
Prisoners of war
Veterans
Color
Video art
Military museums
Soldiers
Memorials
Public art
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSite_05
Place
Mexican-American border region

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