Playing with fire
Subtitle: paintings by Carlos Almaraz
By: Howard N. Fox ; with an essay by Elsa Flores Almaraz, with Jeffrey J. Rangel ; contributions by Maya Almaraz [and 18 others]
Contributors: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9783791356853
Subjects: Exhibitions
Work titles: Playing with fire (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Description: Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz' is the first full- length monograph devoted to an artist known for both his politically engaged cultural production as well as his vibrant, highly sought-after studio art, particularly his scenes of car crashes and pastoral depictions of L.A.'s Echo Park. Among the leading figures whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with works for the United Farm Workers and cofounded the important artists collective Los Four. Although he saw himself as an activist, Almaraz straddled multiple- and often contradictory-identities that drew from divergent cultures and approaches, and his work became less overtly political and more personal, psychological, dreamlike, and even mystical as he evolved artistically. The book features more than 60 works, mostly from the late 1970s through 1989, the year of the artist's untimely death at age 48, as well as selections from his journals and recollections from numerous colleagues and friends who knew him throughout his career.00Exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (06.08.-03.12.2017).
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 6-December 3, 2017"--Colophon.

"Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA"--Colophon.

"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael Govan; title: Playing with Fire / Howard N. Fox; title: Plates; title: The Artist's Journey : The Life of Carlos Almaraz / Elsa Flores Almaraz, with Jeffrey J. Rangel; title: A Life Transfigured in Words : Selections from the Journals of Carlos Almaraz / Compiled by Elsa Flores Almaraz; title: Other Voices : Almaraz's Legacy / Compiled by Marielos Kluck.