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130 0 $aPlaying with fire (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
245 10$aPlaying with fire :$bpaintings by Carlos Almaraz /$cHoward N. Fox ; with an essay by Elsa Flores Almaraz, with Jeffrey J. Rangel ; contributions by Maya Almaraz, Barbara Carrasco, Patrick Ela, Fritz A. Frauchiger, Marielos Gluck, Dan Guerrero, Mark Guerrero, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Judithe Hernández, Craig Krull, Gina Lobaco, Cheech Marin, Suzanne Muchnic, Louie F. Pérez, Aimée Brown Price, Monroe Price, Joan Agajanian Quinn, John Valadez, and Jeffrey Vallance ; featuring excerpts from the journals of Carlos Almaraz.
260 $aLos Angeles :$bLos Angeles County Museum of Art ;$aMunich ;$aNew York :$c[2017].$bDelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel Publishing,
300 $a147 p. :$bill. (chiefly color) ;$c28 cm.
500 $aPublished 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.
500 $aPublished with the assistance of the Getty Foundation.-- Title page.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aForeword / Michael Govan -- Playing with Fire / Howard N. Fox -- Plates -- The Artist's Journey : The Life of Carlos Almaraz / Elsa Flores Almaraz, with Jeffrey J. Rangel -- A Life Transfigured in Words : Selections from the Journals of Carlos Almaraz / Compiled by Elsa Flores Almaraz -- Other Voices : Almaraz's Legacy / Compiled by Marielos Kluck.
520 8 $aPlaying with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz' is the first full- length monograph devoted to an artist known for both his politically engaged cultural production as well as his vibrant, highly sought-after studio art, particularlyhis scenes of car crashes and pastoral depictions of L.A.'s Echo Park. Among the leading figures whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with works for the United Farm Workers and cofounded the important artists collective Los Four. Although he saw himself as an activist, Almaraz straddled multiple- and often contradictory-identities that drew from divergent cultures and approaches, and hiswork became less overtly political and more personal, psychological, dreamlike, and even mystical as he evolved artistically. The book features more than 60 works, mostly from the late 1970s through 1989, the year of the artist's untimely death at age 48, as well as selections from his journals and recollections from numerous colleagues and friends who knew him throughout his career.00Exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (06.08.-03.12.2017).
600 10$aAlmaraz, Carlos$vExhibitions.
700 1 $aFox, Howard N.$tPlaying with fire.
700 1 $iContainer of work:$aAlmaraz, Carlos.$tPaintings.$kSelections.
710 2 $aLos Angeles County Museum of Art,$eorganizer,$ehost institution.
710 2 $aPacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project).