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RECOMMENDED READING
Students of all levels doing research about Carmen Lomas Garza should
also
read the children’s books listed in the Publications
page.
Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge
by
Cheech Marin
Family Pictures and other children’s books
by
Carmen Lomas Garza
Chicano
Chronicle and Cosmology: The Works of Carmen Lomas Garza
By Amalia Mesa-Bains
Excerpts from the catalogue A
Piece of My Heart/Pedacito de mi Corazón: The
Art of Carmen Lomas Garza
"Her...paintings are an important body of work
that has served as an alternative chronicle of communal,
familial, historical and cultural practices. In her
role as a chronicler she maintains a tradition beginning
with the first generation of mestizaje Cronistas of
the New World. Lomas Garza develops her genealogies
and lays claim to her origin and the origin of the Chicano
community. Like these first cronistas caught in a catastrophic
moment of history she (re)members for us as an act of
resistance. The sense of another chronos or time is
Lomas Garza's device for memory and resistance. As an
alternative chronicler her history is a response to
the institutional Texas histories of the Alamo and the
Texas Rangers.
In the most socio-political sense Lomas Garza's use
of memory stands against the historical erasure of Chicano
culture. She remembers what we can never forget and
thereby subverts the dominance of an Anglo society.
...Although the artist has remained true to the historiography
of her life and her community, the tales depicted have
larger allegorical references to death, aging, innocence,
and faith.
...Consistent and persevering, the artist has (re)collected
and (re)membered for us. It is our Chronos that has
been recorded and we the viewers receive this gift of
remembrance in each print and in each painting."
RESEARCH LINKS
Chicana
and Chicano Space:
A Thematic, Inquiry-Based Art Education Resource
This
site is a resource for teachers, their students, and
others interested in Chicana and Chicano art and culture.
Chicana and Chicano Space presents over 25 Chicana/o
and earlier artworks and detailed information about each,
as well as thematic instructional units focused on these
artworks. Some considerations in selecting the artworks
have been relevance to significant themes, gender balance,
geographic breadth, and historical range.
Smith College
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Carmen
Lomas Garza Oral History Interview conducted by
Paul Karlstrom for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, 1997. The Information is listed under Lomas Garza, Carmen.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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