ISBN:
9781479822720
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
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12 Illustrations, color, 60 black and white illustrations
Series Statement:
Sexual Cultures 36
DDC:
306.77086642
Keywords:
Aby Warburg;AIDS quilt;Alex Donis;Alma Lopez;André Malraux;archival body;archival space;archive elicitation;Arnie Araica;Asco;Barrio Baroque;Beverly Center;cast culture;Cathedral High School;Charles Lummis;Chicano art movement;Christopher Isherwood;Cyclona;David Hockney;domesticana sensibility;Don Bachardy;Ed Kienholz;Eddie Murphy;Ernest Batchelder;Fire Island;Frozen Art;Gilbert Magú Lujan;Homeboy Beautiful;iconoclasm
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Jack Vargas
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Jef Huereque
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Jeff Bridges
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Latino AIDS memorial
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Los Angeles
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Luis Jimenez
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Macho Mirage
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Maricón Collective
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Michael Nava
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Modern Objects
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Mundos Alternos
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New Romantics
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Palm Springs
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Picasso
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Queer Aztlán
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Robert Mapplethorpe
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Ronnie Carrillo
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Ron’s Records
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Rosa de la Montaña
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Self-Help Graphics
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Simon Doonan
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Southwest Museum
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institutional critique
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mannequins
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para-sites
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queer Chicanx avant-garde
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queer archive
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rasquachismo
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window dressing
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ART / History / General
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Gay men Sexual behavior
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Mexican American gays
Abstract:
Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife Emboldened by the boom in art, fashion, music, and retail culture in 1980s Los Angeles, the iconoclasts of queer Aztlán—as Robb Hernández terms the group of artists who emerged from East LA, Orange County, and other parts of Southern California during this period—developed a new vernacular with which to read the city in bloom. Tracing this important but understudied body of work, Archiving an Epidemic catalogs a queer retelling of the Chicana and Chicano art movement, from its origins in the 1960s, to the AIDS crisis and the destruction it wrought in the 1980s, and onto the remnants and legacies of these artists in the current moment. Hernández offers a vocabulary for this multi-modal avant-garde—one that contests the heteromasculinity and ocular surveillance visited upon it by the larger Chicanx community, as well as the formally straight conditions of traditional archive-building, museum institutions, and the art world writ large. With a focus on works by Mundo Meza (1955–85), Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995), and Joey Terrill (1955– ), and with appearances by Laura Aguilar, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, and even Eddie Murphy, Archiving an Epidemic composes a complex picture of queer Chicanx avant-gardisms. With over sixty images—many of which are published here for the first time—Hernández’s work excavates this archive to question not what Chicanx art is, but what it could have been
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)
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In English
DOI:
10.18574/9781479822720
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479822720
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