Carlos Villa : worlds in collision / edited by Mark Dean Johnson and Trisha Lagaso Goldberg with Sherwin Rio ; with contributions by Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Patrick D. Flores, Luis H. Francia, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Paul J. Karlstrom, Lucy R. Lippard, Margo Machida, and Sherwin Rio.
"Co-organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)"--Title page verso. "This exhibition was organized to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)"--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and index.
Contents:
A sesquicentennial celebration / acknowledgements by Gordon Knox -- Tracing Carlos Villa's path / preface by Jay Xu -- Making the world smaller : Carlos Villa's polyculturalism / foreword by Lucy R. Lippard -- Roots, Rituals and Actions : introduction / by Mark Dean Johnson and Trisha Lagaso-Goldberg -- Carlos Villa : Ascent against the odds / essay [by] Paul Karlstrom -- Ethnographic inspirations : Carlos Villa's works from the 1970s / special section commentary by Mark Dean Johnson, Trisha Lagaso-Goldberg and Sherwin Rio -- Transcultural sampling : the reimagined worlds of Carlos Villa / essay by Margo Machida -- A smaller world : Carlos Villa and the global collections at the Newark Museum of Art / special section commentary by Tricia Laughlin Bloom -- Carlos Villa's fake book / essay by Theodore S. Gonzalves -- America is in his art : Carlos Villa's poetics of multiculturalism / essay by Luis H. Francia -- Words in space : Carlos Villa's 1990s notepad drawings / special section commentary by Mark Dean Johnson, Trisha Lagaso-Goldberg and Sherwin Rio -- Worlds in collision, exploding galaxy, voyage into the absolute / essay [by] Patrick D. Flores -- Exhibition Checklist / extended captions by Mark Dean Johnson -- Carlos Villa : an illustrated chronology / timeline by Sherwin Rio -- Carlos Villa selected bibliography.
Summary:
"Carlos Villa has been described as the preeminent Filipino American artist--a legend in artistic circles for his groundbreaking approaches and his influence on countless artists--but he remains little known to many fans and scholars of modern and contemporary art. Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision is the first museum retrospective of his work, presented at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Villa was trained at the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist, and over time he transformed his practice to address issues of ethnic and cultural diversity. He concurrently assumed a leadership role in 'Third World' and 'multicultural' international art movements, and his large-scale works reference non-Western traditions, including tattoo, scarification, ritual, and ceremony. He was also an important theorist, curator, and organizer of public forums that he called 'actions.' This book traces the arc of his career from 1969 until his death in 2013, with emphasis on his feathered works from the 1970s, as well as later works that address aspects of the history of Filipinos in the United States. It illuminates the social and cultural roots--and global importance--of Villa's art and teaching career as he sought to forge a new kind of art-world inclusion that reflected his own experience, commitment to diversity, and boundary-bending imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
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