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Friendly Cannibals / Chagoya, Enrique ; Gomez-Pena, Guillermo., 1996

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Identifier: CC-32589-34170

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Scope and Contents

The artist Chagoya presents "a fictional pre-columbian codex book." His images stem from ancient meso-America, comic book characters, Catholic iconography, ethnic stereotypes and the border patrol. Gomez-Pena describes a futurist United States in which the Chicano culture and Spanglish are mainstream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1996

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (46 pages)) ; 21 x 16.3 x .8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

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Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: San Francisco, California : Artspace Books. Nationality of creator: Mexican and American. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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