num_pages: 120
description: Over the past twenty-five years, Chicano artists have made a unique contribution to public art in California, transforming thousands of walls into colorful artworks that express the dreams, achievements, aspirations, and cultural identity of the Mexican-American community. Signs From the Heart tells the inside story of this new and important American art form in four interpretive essays by noted Chicano scholars about its historical, artistic, and educational significance.
language: English
title: Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals
titlecomplete: Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals
genres: Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 21
publisher: University of New Mexico Press