Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East La Murals - Hardcover

by Holly Barnet-Sanchez (Author), Tim Drescher (Author), Ybarra-Frausto Tomás (Foreword by)

This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced.

Author Biography

Holly Barnet-Sanchez is an associate professor emerita of art history at the University of New Mexico. She is the coeditor of Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals, also available from UNM Press, and a contributor to Mexican Muralism: A Critical History.

Tim Drescher is an independent scholar in Berkeley, California. He is the coauthor of Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters and a contributor to Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement (UNM Press).