Axis Mundo : queer networks in Chicano L.A. / C. Ondine Chavoya, David Evans Frantz, with Macarena Gómez-Barris ; Leticia Alvarado, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Simon Doonan, Colin Gunckel, Joshua Javier Guzmán, Iván A. Ramos, Richard T. Rodríguez.
Publisher:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries ;
"Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A." : September 9-December 31, 2017, ONE Gallery, West Hollywood, California, United States. "Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A." : September 9-December 31, 2017, MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, California, United States. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries and presented simultaneously at the ONE Gallery, West Hollywood, and MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, California, September 9-December 31, 2017. "Axis Mundo is presented in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, as a part of the Getty-led Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword / Joseph Hawkins -- Axis Mundo : constellations and connections / C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz -- Chicano chic : fashion/costume/play / David Evans Frantz -- Camp mystics : psychedelic and spiritual play in the queer Chicana/o archive / Iván A. Ramos -- Malflora aberrant femininities / Leticia Alvarado -- Homeboy beautiful ; or Chicano gay male sex expression in the 1970s / Richard T. Rodríguez -- Joey Terrill, selections from Homeboy beautiful, no.1 (1978) and no.2 (1979) -- Tosh Carrillo, Photographs, c. 1970s -- Jack Vargas, The new bourgeois "I want" with gay male suggestiveness, c. 1976-79 -- "Be easy but look hard" : conceptual currents in queer Chicana/o art / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Exchange desired : correspondence into action / C. Ondine Chavoya -- "People think we're weird 'cause we're queer" : art meets punk in Los Angeles / Colin Gunckel -- Nervous gender, Band flyers, c. 1979-90 -- Gerardo Velázquez, Selected poetry, c. 1978-84 -- Between action and abstraction / Joshua Javier Guzmán -- Ray Navarro, "Eso, me está pasando," 1990 -- The plush view : makeshift sexualities and Laura Aguilar's forbidden archives / Macarena Gómez-Barris -- Afterword : Mundo goes to Hollywood / Simon Doonan.
Summary:
Working between the 1960s and early 1990s, the artists profiled in this compendium represent a broad cross section of L.A.'s art scene. With nearly 400 illustrations and ten essays, this volume presents histories of artistic experimentation and reveals networks of collaboration and exchange that resulted in some of the most intriguing art of late 20th-century America. From "mail art" to the rise of Chicano, gay, and feminist print media; the formation of alternative spaces to punk music and performance; fashion culture to the AIDS crisis-the artists and works featured here comprise a boundary-pushing network of voices and talents.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.