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Jacinto Quirarte (August 17, 1931 - July 20, 2012) was an art historian, professor, scholar and writer who was instrumental in documenting and promoting Latino and Chicano art in the United States. Quirarte was an "expert in pre-Columbian and Latin American art history." He was one of the first to insist that pre-Columbian art and Latino art become part of the mainstream American art history narrative. He wrote many papers, monographs and several books on the subject of both ancient and modern art in the United States, Mexico, Central and South America. He is one of the founding deans of the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).〔 Quirarte was also one of the first Mexican-American scholars to work at the university level.〔 == Biography == Quirarte was born during the Great Depression, in Jerome, a small mining town in Arizona. His father, Francisco, was originally from a town outside of Guadalajara, Jalisco. His mother, Frutosa, was born in Jerome, and her family had come from the same area of Jalisco.〔 Quirarte's family lived in the part of town in Jerome known as El Barrio Mexicano or sometimes El Barrio Chicano.〔 He didn't learn to speak English until he started school. He enjoyed his studies from an early age and began drawing Arizona landscapes as a young child.〔 Quirarte moved with his family to San Francisco at age 16.〔 They eventually settled into the Mission District where he attended Mission High School.〔 In high school, he took many challenging courses, especially in critical writing in English.〔 He also played varsity basketball for Mission High School.〔 Even though Quirarte excelled at sports, he felt that art was the direction he wanted to go in for a career.〔 Quirarte attended San Francisco State University (SFSU) where he got his BA.〔 During his time there, he studied with artist, John Gutmann, learning art history, photography and life drawing.〔 Between working towards his Bachelor's degree and Master's, which he also received from SFSU, Quirarte served in the Korean War in the United States Air Force where he was a first lieutenant and a navigator.〔 He was part of a bomber squadron from 1954 to 1957.〔 In 1954, Quirarte met his wife, Sara Bel Farmer, when he was at navigator training in Harlingen, Texas.〔 They married within two months of meeting one another.〔 Sara had worked as a model in New York and was a student at the University of Texas.〔 Quirarte and Sara honeymooned in Mexico after their marriage in December.〔 Quirarte went back to SFSU and pursued a masters after leaving the Air Force.〔 He took art history classes and aesthetics.〔 One big reason that Quirarte chose not to become an artist was because he didn't like the dominant art form of the time, Abstract Expressionism.〔 Quirarte felt that he would have had to work in that school of art to be successful and he preferred figurative art.〔 His Masters thesis was on Mayan painting and Gutmann was a big help to Quirarte as he worked towards his thesis.〔 After working on his thesis, Quirarte used his GI Bill to pursue a Ph.D. in art history.〔 Quirarte and his wife, Sara, went to Mexico where he attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico.〔 He became "steeped in the artistic traditions of Central and South America" during his time there.〔 Quirarte became an assistant to Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, a famous archaeologist who studied the Ancient Maya.〔 Quirarte studied under Justino Fernández, an important art historian, during his time in Mexico as well.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacinto Quirarte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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