Shifra Goldman
Shifra Meyerowitz Goldman (July 18, 1926 – September 11, 2011) was an American art historian, and activist.[1]
Life
She grew up in New York City. She moved to Los Angeles. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, from California State University, Los Angeles in 1966, and from University of California, Los Angeles, with a PhD in art history in 1977. She married John Garcia in 1952; they divorced. She taught at Santa Ana College, until 1992.[2]
She helped save the "America Tropical" mural, by David Alfaro Siqueiros.[3]
Works
- Mexican muralism: its social-educative roles in Latin America and the United States, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 1980
- Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change 1981; University of New Mexico Press, 1995, ISBN 9780826315625
- Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States. University of Chicago Press. 1994. ISBN 9780226301242. http://books.google.com/books?id=kOvD9spwwDQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Shifra+Goldman&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GvTvTv-_LYXisQKMz8G3CQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Shifra%20Goldman&f=false.
- Shifra M. Goldman, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (eds) Arte Chicano: a comprehensive annotated bibliography of Chicano art, 1965-1981, Chicano Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California, 1985, ISBN 9780918520098
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