- Name
- Luis C. González
- Also Known as
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Louie "The Foot" GonzálezLuis C. Gonzalez
- Born
- Mexico City, Mexico
- born Mexico City, Mexico 1953
- Active in
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- Sacramento, California
- Nationalities
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American
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Luis C. González
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Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Hasta La Victoria Siempre
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Hasta La Victoria Siempre
Luis González’s Hasta La Victoria Siempre combines bold graphics and text in a powerful political poster designed to support the Chicano movement
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Traditions and Change: The Transformation of Día de los Muertos in the United States
Chicano artists and activists blended cultural and visual traditions to create modern Day of the Dead celebrations in the U.S.
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: The Bounty of the Calendario de Comida
Exploring tradition, place, and social justice through food
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Works by This Artist (27 items)
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¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice. -
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art presents the rich and varied contributions of Latino artists in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, when the concept of a collective Latino identity began to emerge.