Give Me Life

Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals

By Holly Barnet-Sanchez and Tim Drescher
Foreword by Ybarra-Frausto Tomás
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced.

About The Authors

Holly Barnet-Sanchez

Holly Barnet-Sanchez is an associate professor emerita of art history at the University of New Mexico. She is the coeditor of Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals, also available from UNM Press, and a contributor to Mexican Muralism: A Critical History.

Tim Drescher

Tim Drescher is an independent scholar in Berkeley, California. He is the coauthor of Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters and a contributor to Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement (UNM Press).

Product Details

  • Publisher: UNM Press (December 15, 2016)
  • Length: 440 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780826357472

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A welcome addition to scholarship about murals and public art . . . Comprehensive and well organized.
--New Mexico Historical Review

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Give Me Life

Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals

By Holly Barnet-Sanchez and Tim Drescher
Foreword by Ybarra-Frausto Tomás
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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