Oral history interview with Rupert Garcia
name: label: Interviewee
content: Garcia, Rupert, 1941-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Asco (Group of artists)
label: Names
content: Galería de la Raza (San Francisco, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Los Four (Art group)
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content: San Francisco State University -- Students
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content: Almaraz, Carlos
label: Names
content: Lippard, Lucy R.
label: Names
content: Montoya, Malaquias, 1938-
topic: label: Topic
content: Chicano artists
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
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, administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Garcia, Rupert, 1941-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rupert Garcia (1941-) is a painter and teacher from the San Francisco Bay area, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Sound cassettes (Sound recording (8 1/2 hrs.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 166 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995 Sept. 7-1996 June 24
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.garcia95
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Rupert Garcia conducted 1995 Sept. 7-1996 June 24, by Paul J. Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at Rupert Garcia's home and studio, in Oakland, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: SEPT. 7, 1995 SESSION: Session opens with a discussion of Garcia's exhibition, Aspects of Persistence (1993); the deaths in 1968 of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Marcel Duchamp; Garcia's self-conception and his two roles as political activist and artist; the influence on him of Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"; racism, power, control; his background and being a Mexican-American; need to establish ethnic identity; his realization in high school of wanting to become an artist; his lost opportunity for a scholarship at the San Francisco Art Institute; moving to San Francisco; enlisting in the Air Force and serving in Vietnam; ambivalence about war; experiences at San Francisco State University and his switch from painting to silkscreen; Artes Seis and Galerie de la Raza; artists in the Mission District.
label: Scope and Contents
content: NOV. 10, 1995 SESSION: Painting vs. graphic art; posters; Lucy Lippard; Chicano art; Los Four, Asco, and other artists groups and conferences; conflicts between San Francisco and Oakland groups; emergence of identity groups; Malaquias Montoya, Carlos Almaraz; making art from experience.
label: Scope and Contents
content: JUNE 24, 1996: Politics of culture; social progress; being optimistic but realistic; the Latino movement in the 1990s; Mexican attitudes toward Chicanos; the CARA exhibition at UCLA; Garcia's students at San José State; current work, interests and projects; interest in art history and other intellectual pursuits; and the art market, dealers, and galleries.