Judith F. Baca

By Ann Indych-Lopez Behind the fascinating public artist’s practice of collaboration. Anna Indych-López explores Judith F. Baca’s oeuvre, from early murals painted with local gang members in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles to the Great Wall of Los Angeles (1976–83) to more recently commissioned works. Throughout, Indych-López assesses what she calls Baca’s “public art of contestation” and discusses how ideas of collaboration and authorship and issues of race, class, and gender have influenced and sustained Baca’s art practice.  UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2018 Softcover, 200 pages 6 x 7 inches