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Reclaiming Aztlán: The Visual Rhetoric Of Pre-Columbian Imagery In Chicano Murals, Kelsey Mahler

Summer Research

The goal of this project was to explore the ways in which Chicano muralists of the 1970s and 80s used pre-Columbian imagery in their work to express the political consciousness of the Chicano movement.

Having seen the Chicano murals in Seattle that I would include in my study, I began my research by traveling to southern California to observe the remainder of the murals I wanted to include. It was important to me to view the murals in person because one of the characteristics of muralism is its site-specificity, as it often seeks to interact with and transform its environment. …

Planning The Twentieth-Century American City, By Mary Corbin Sies And Christopher Silver. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore And London, 1996, And Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning The Twentieth-Century Metropolis, By Greg Hise. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore And London, 1997 (Book Reviews), Robert Wojtowicz

Art Faculty Publications

(First Paragraph) Planning has been a part of the American landscape since the establishment of the first colonial outposts, but it was not until the early twentieth century that the field's protagonists organized and professionalized. Also a relatively recent phenomenon is the field of American planning history, which for many years was the neglected stepchild of urban history and the distant cousin of architectural history. Over the past decade, however, a steady outpouring of interdisciplinary research has garnered for the field well-deserved recognition within the academy. At a time when more established disciplines are increasingly torn by ideological differences and …