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Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force - Mapping a Chicano/a Art History (Paperback)
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Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force - Mapping a Chicano/a Art History (Paperback)
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Winner, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book
Award, 2019 The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of
visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second
half of the twentieth century and first decades of the
twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and
established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine the
meaning of artistic production and artwork to include community
engagement projects such as breakfast programs, community art
classes, and political and labor activism. The collective's work
has contributed significantly both to Chicano/a civil rights
activism and to Chicano/a art history, literature, and culture.
Blending RCAF members' biographies and accounts of their artistic
production with art historical, cultural, and literary scholarship,
Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force is the
first in-depth study of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective and
activist group. Ella Maria Diaz investigates how the RCAF
questioned and countered conventions of Western art, from the canon
taught in US institutions to Mexican national art history, while
advancing a Chicano/a historical consciousness in the cultural
borderlands. In particular, she demonstrates how women
significantly contributed to the collective's output, navigating
and challenging the overarching patriarchal cultural norms of the
Chicano Movement and their manifestations in the RCAF. Diaz also
shows how the RCAF's verbal and visual architecture-a literal and
figurative construction of Chicano/a signs, symbols, and
texts-established the groundwork for numerous theoretical
interventions made by key scholars in the 1990s and the
twenty-first century.
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