Author: California. Department of Industrial RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Report for Governor's Council
Author: California. Department of Industrial RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Report for Governor's Council
Author: California. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Report to Governor's Council
Author: California. Department of Industrial RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Report to the Governor and Council, Concerning the Indians of the Commonwealth, Under the Act of April 6, 1859
Author: Massachusetts. Commissioners to Examine into the Condition of the Indians of the CommonwealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Martín Ramírez
Author: Víctor M. EspinosaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477307923
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Martín Ramírez, a Mexican migrant worker and psychiatric patient without formal artistic training, has been hailed by leading New York art critics as one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists. His work has been exhibited alongside masters such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró. A landmark exhibition of Ramírez’s work at the American Folk Art Museum in 2007 broke attendance records and garnered praise from major media, including the New York Times, New Yorker, and Village Voice. Martín Ramírez offers the first sustained look at the life and critical reception of this acclaimed artist. Víctor Espinosa challenges the stereotype of outsider art as an indecipherable enigma by delving into Ramírez’s biography and showing how he transformed memories of his life in Mexico, as well as his experiences of displacement and seclusion in the United States, into powerful works of art. Espinosa then traces the reception of Ramírez’s work, from its first anonymous showings in the 1950s to contemporary exhibitions and individual works that have sold for as much as a half-million dollars. This eloquently told story reveals how Ramírez’s three-decades-long incarceration in California psychiatric institutions and his classification as “chronic paranoid schizophrenic” stigmatized yet also protected what his hands produced. Stripping off the labels “psychotic artist” and “outsider master,” Martín Ramírez demonstrates that his drawings are not passive manifestations of mental illness. Although he drew while confined as a psychiatric patient, the formal elements and content of Ramírez’s artwork are shaped by his experiences of cultural and physical displacement.
Aging
Author: Records of the Council of Safety and Governor and Council of the State of Vermont
Author: VermontReport of the Military Governor of Porto Rico on Civil Affairs
Author: Puerto Rico. Military governorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puerto Rico
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
Open-file Report
Author: Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 2820
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