Existing comment:
Rodolfo O. Cuellar
born Auburn, California 1950
Luis C. González
born Mexico City, Mexico 1953
José Montoya
born Escobosa, New Mexico 1932; died Sacramento, California 2013
José Montoya's Pachuco Art, A Historical Update
1978
linocut on paper
Pachucos first emerged in the mid-twentieth century, when Mexican American youth began donning flamboyant zoot suits, fedoras, and suspenders. Their style, which required extensive amounts of fabric at a time of rationing during World War II, was considered unpatriotic by some. Chicanos in the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewed pachucos' rebellious attitude, distinctive slang, and style a precursor to their own cultural assertiveness. Members of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), a Sacramento Chicano art collective, created Pachuco as an exhibition event poster and a dedication to the skeletal figures illustrated by the influential Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada.
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