Object Details
Artist
Malaquias Montoya, born Albuquerque, NM 1938
Exhibition Label
Montoya's activist artmaking began in the context of the California farm workers' movement but soon referenced the full cultural and political dimensions of the fight for Chicano civil rights. His iconic Viet Nam/Aztlan reveals the links among the antiwar, anticolonial, and civil rights movements. Its design equates Vietnam with Aztlán, the mythic Chicano homeland said to be located in the southwestern United States, identifying Chicanos as a conquered and occupied people. In the middle, a Vietnamese soldier and a Chicano man merge together. At bottom, beneath yellow and brown clenched fists, is the Spanish word Fuera, meaning "get out."
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment
Copyright
© 1973, Malaquias Montoya
Date
1973
Object number
2015.29.3
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Graphic Arts-Print
Medium
offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 26 × 19 in. (66.0 × 48.3 cm) image: 22 1/2 × 17 1/4 in. (57.2 × 43.8 cm)
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Department
Graphic Arts
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Figure group\male
History\United States\Vietnam War
Chicanx
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_2015.29.3