Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Green, Kate (Kate Guttmacher)
2. Casso, Isabel
3. Franco, Josh T
4. Tejada, Roberto
5. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, host institution

Description

1. 138, 132 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, some folded); 30 cm

Summary

1. "Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Breaking the Binding" is the first major publication devoted to the career of this seminal Chicana artist, who was born in El Paso, TX, in 1937. Accompanying her first museum career retrospective, this volume surveys the artist's decades of colorful photo and text-based artworks, book projects, large-scale installations, public works, and unpublished, associated archival materials. Color images and scholarly texts illuminate the artist's themes (childhood learning and perception, bicultural and bilingual experience, youthful slips of mind and tongue); and her often playful, first-person approach using conceptual tools. Resulting artworks are at once intimate and cerebral, analytical and joyful; reflecting the complexities of childhood, especially on a bicultural and bilingual border. Alongside images, the book features a conversation between the artist and her longtime interlocutor and friend, Roberto Tejada, as well as essays by the exhibition co-curators Kate Green and Isabel Casso, and Josh Franco, Head of Collecting at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
2. "Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Enlightenment" features her Enlightenment series of artists' books and installations, with an essay by Isabel Casso, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Uniform title

1. Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Enlightenment.

Alternative title

1. Breaking the binding
2. Enlightenment

Subject

1. Muñoz, Celia Álvarez, 1937- -- Exhibitions.
2. Muñoz, Celia Álvarez, 1937- -- Interviews.
3. Mexican American artists -- Exhibitions.
4. Installations (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions.
5. Artists' books -- United States -- Exhibitions.

Contents

1. [volume 1]. Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Breaking the binding -- [volume 2]. Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Enlightenment
2. "Chispas Quémenme!" ["Sparks, Burn Me!"] : Enlightenment #1, 1980 -- "Double Bubble & WWII" : Enlightenment #2, 1980-1982 -- "El Tuétano" ["The Marrow"] : Enlightenment #3, 1980-1982 -- "Which Came First?" : Enlightenment #4, 1982 -- "Personal Salvation" : Enlightenment #5, 1982-1983 -- "El Espíritu Malo" ["The Evil Spirit"], Enlightenment #6, 1982-1983 -- "Sangre de Christo" ["Blood of Christ"], Enlightenment #7, 1983 -- "Ave María Purísima", Enlightenment #8, 1983 -- "La Honey" ["The Honey"], Enlightenment #9, 1983 -- "La Tempestad" ["The Tempest"], Enlightenment #10, 1985.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Language

1. English

Note

1. Two volumes, bound back-to-back and housed in a slipcase.
2. "This book is published with the exhibition "Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Breaking the Binding", organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, March 16-August 13, 2023."
3. "Contribitors, Celia Alvarez Munoz, Isabel Casso, Josh T. Franco, Kate Green, Roberto Tejada"--Pages 134-135.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.