Archiving an Epidemic (eBook)

Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde

Robb Hernández (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-2661-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Honorable Mention, 2021 Latinx Studies Section Outstanding Book Award, given by the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards in the LGBTQ+ Themed SectionFinalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesCritically 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 Aztlan as Robb Hernandez 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. Hernandez 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 Hernandez s work excavates this archive to question not what Chicanx art is, but what it could have been.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Sexual Cultures
• Reihe/Serie: Sexual Cultures
• Zusatzinfo: 12 Illustrations, color, 60 black and white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: 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 • Eddie Murphy • Ed Kienholz • Ernest Batchelder • Fire Island • Frozen Art • Gilbert Magú Lujan • Homeboy Beautiful • Iconoclasm • Institutional Critique • Jack Vargas • Jeff Bridges • Jef Huereque • Latino AIDS memorial • Los Angeles • Luis Jimenez • Macho Mirage • Mannequins • Maricón Collective • Michael Nava • Modern Objects • Mundos Alternos • new romantics • Palm Springs • para-sites • Picasso • queer archive • Queer Aztlán • queer Chicanx avant-garde • rasquachismo • Robert Mapplethorpe • Ronnie Carrillo • Ron’s Records • Rosa de la Montaña • Self-Help Graphics • Simon Doonan • Southwest Museum • Window Dressing
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-2661-8 / 1479826618
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-2661-2 / 9781479826612