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| Cultural referent as used in chicano art. |
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| Art is its own justification; does not need to serve a social purpose. |
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| An art form in which the artists body is the medium. |
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| Spanish for "skulls" or skeleton caricatures. Popularized by Jose Posada. |
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| The suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as destermined my government, media outlet, or other controlling body. |
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| Essentialists first generation female aesthetic that valorized female sexuality, female body, and female experience. (vaginal iconography, butterfly iconography, cunt art) |
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| Man/Woman of mexican heritage and resent assimilation. |
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| Act of living as a Chicano or Chicana. Also described as the political philosoph behind Chicano as an idenity. |
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| Phenonmenon whereby art is valued primarily as an investment, rather than for aesthestics or content. |
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| Art that is primarily about the idea; there may or may not be an object. |
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| Specifically refers to the ideas of cultural workers during the Depression era who advocated for the U.S. government's New Deal to include programs that would popularize the arts, making visual arts & theatre more accesible to the masses. |
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| Cultural Imperialis/Cultural Colonialism |
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| The pratice of imposing the language or culture of one nation onto another. Cultural imperialism can manifest itself as an offical policy or s a general approach. |
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| The act of "looking for, searching out, and piecing together aspects of lost or hidden legacies. |
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| Methodology used to reveal ideologies of power structures, not the artist's intent. |
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| The view that categories of people, such as women and men, or heterosexuals and homosexuals, or members of ethnic groups, have intrinsically different and characteristic nature or dispositions. |
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| Critique of politcal, economic and ideological genfer relationships. |
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| A psycho-analitical term brought into popular usage by Jacques Lacan to describe the anxious state that comes into awareness that one can be viewed (the so-called mirror stage where the subject oberserves "the observation of himself" in a mirror) |
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| Valorizes powerful female images of prehistoric matrisitc cultures. |
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| Drawings or images scratched into the surfaces or walls. Illicit graffiti dates back to ancient Egypt. |
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| The predominant influence, as of opposite-sex relationships of a sexual nature, and against same-sex relationships of a sexual nature. |
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| Something which is sexually arousing to an individual of the same sex. |
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| The cultural bias in favor of opposite-sex relationships of a sexual nature, and against same-sex relationships of a sexual nature. |
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| Whereby the ruling clss promotes a false consciousness (or an inverse of reality) by means of laws, literature, imagery, and traditional beliefs, to make it seem natural that they should have power and privileges over other classes. |
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| Refers to the low-art artifacts of everyday life. |
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| Relief printmaking method whereby an image is cut out in linoleum. Involves inking the linoleum and transferrig the image to paper. |
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| Express an asymetrical (unequal) power relationship, i.e man imposes his objectifying gaze pon a woman. |
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| Encompasses Marxian economic theory, a sociolgical theory and a revlutionary view of social change that has influenced socialist political movements around the world. |
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| Mass meda, newspapers, television, advertising posters, and billboards. |
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| Describes racial intermarriage or mixing. Most often used to describe European and Indian mixing creating mestizoz/mestizas people of mixed racial and cultural heritage. |
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| Acitvist feminist anonymous artist group from the 80's, noted for their gorilla costumes. |
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| Activist art group that sought to bring attention to the AIDS crisis. |
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| Political term for new-world inhabitants of Spanish and mixed decent. |
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| Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer. |
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| National Endowment for the Arts. Formed in the 1960's, a federal government organization to support the arts with public funding. |
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| Royal Chicano Art Force. Graphic art workshop from Sacramento. |
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| Social Public Art Resource Council Agency founded by Baca to recreate community mural in LA neighborhoods. |
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| Group of African America artists who met weekly from the summer of 1963 through 1965 to discuss the role of African American artists in politics and the civil rights movment, as well as in the larger art of the world. |
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| Spontaneous protest of June 1969 that sparked the Gay Rights Movement. |
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| Early feminist installation in LA produced by Cal Ats women's art program WSABAL : Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation begun by Faith Ringgold; promoted equal access for womem, students and artists of color. |
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| Modern character or quality of thought, expression or technique. |
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| Opposition to the supremacy of the European tradition and aesthetic as a universal ideal. |
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| Debte concerns the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities versus personal experiences in determining or causing individual differences in physical and behavioral traits. |
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| Used by critical theorists such as Cornel West to describe the way in which the idea of Eurocentric racial identity provides the lens through which other races are viewed and socially constructed. |
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| Non-normative groups denied economic/politcal power |
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