Oral history interview with Gilbert Sanchez Lujan
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 42 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Sanchez Luján, Gilbert
label: Interviewer
content: Rangel, Jeffrey J.
label: Names
content: Los Four (Art group)
label: Names
content: Almaraz, Carlos
label: Names
content: Rocha, Roberto de la
label: Names
content: Romero, Frank
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- La Mesa -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Chicano artists
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Sanchez Luján, Gilbert
label: Interviewer
content: Rangel, Jeffrey J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gilbert Sanchez Lujan (1940-2011) was a painter from Los Angeles and La Mesa, N.M.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 104 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 Nov. 7-17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lujan97
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Gilbert Lujan conducted 1997 Nov. 7-17, by Jeffrey Rangel, for the Archives of American Art, in Los Angeles, Calif. and La Mesa, N.M.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Sanchez Lujan discusses his growing up in a rural community, East Los Angeles, and Mexico; how early experiences and changes in culture have affected his art and developed his interest in history and politics; his attraction to black culture and the relationship of art as a medium for inter-ethnic interaction where politics and human nature create divisions; his understanding of racial segregation and apartheid in California society; coming into consciousness as a Chicano; and his collaboration and the formation of Los Four with Roberto de la Rocha, Carlos Almaraz, and Frank Romero.