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El sol y los de abajo and other R.C.A.F. poems /

"El Sol y los de Abajo reflects the transformation of individual RCAF artworks into a collective creation that revolved around the group's air force persona. Montoya and his RCAF colleagues designed a book format that was inspired by the group's collective values and air force persona...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montoya, José (Author)
Corporate Author: Royal Chicano Air Force
Other Authors: Murguía, Alejandro, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Language Notes:Text of poems in English or Spanish.
Published: San Francisco : Ediciones Pocho-Che, 1972.
Edition:Primera edicion.
Series:Communicaciones del tercer mundo
Subjects:
Mexican American teenagers > Southwestern States > Poetry.
Mexican Americans > Social conditions > Poetry.
Chicano movement > Poetry.
American poetry > Mexican American authors.
Mexican American poetry (Spanish)
Mexican American arts.
Poésie américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine.
Poésie mexicaine-américaine (espagnole)
American poetry > Mexican American authors
Spaans.
Mexicanen.
Mexicaanse Amerikanen.
poetry.
Poetry
Upside-down books
Poetry.
Essays.
Manifestos.
Artists' books.
Livres tête-bêche.
Poésie.
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Summary:"El Sol y los de Abajo reflects the transformation of individual RCAF artworks into a collective creation that revolved around the group's air force persona. Montoya and his RCAF colleagues designed a book format that was inspired by the group's collective values and air force persona. For the cover of the anthology, Montoya's RCAF colleague Armando Cid adapted a photograph made by Hector González of Montoya dressed in aviator sunglasses, a flying cap, and a pilot headset. In its interior, the anthology includes drawings by Cid interspersed between Montoya's verses. The book is also reversible; if one flips it over and begins at the end, the anthology includes poetry and prose by Alejandro Murguia, whose text is complemented by photographs by Adal, a photographer given the byline "New York Puerto Rican" (J. Montoya 1972, 37). The poetry collection, then, reveals that RCAF members extended their collective praxis to other artists to explore nonconventional textual forms. "--Cover of José Montoya's El Sol Y Los De and publication designs."--The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force by Stephanie Sauer in Boom California, Volume 2, issue 4, Winter 2012.
Item Description:Tête-bêche binding. Issued with Murguía, A. Oración a la mano poderosa. San Francisco, 1972.
"This book was printed in an edition of 2,000."--Colophon.
Physical Description:40, 36 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.