Mexican American Artists

Jacinto Quirarte is one of the foremost Chicano art historians and one of the earliest to write about Chicano art history, including the groundbreaking book Mexican American Artists published in 1973. The first of its kind, Mexican American Artists prompted a traveling exhibition featuring artworks by the artists in the book, and the extensive media coverage received helped form a national network of Chicano artists. In his introduction to the book, Quirarte discusses the complexities of the Chicano experience and its impact on Chicano art. He includes a representative sample of living artists and traces Mexican American art of the 1930s through Chicano art in the early 1970s.