Hatje Cantz Publishers | ISBN:3775730036 | File Type: PDF, 432 pages | File size: 37.Mb | Sep. 1st, 2011
Art Group Shows: Elite of the Obscure a Retrospective 1972 1987 ASCO Elite of the Obscure is the first comprehensive monograph to survey the wide ranging activities of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group ASCO Active between 1971 and 1987 ASCO began as a tight knit core of artists from east Los Angeles Harry Gamboa Jr Gronk Willie Herron and atssi Valdez Taking their name from the Spanish idiomatic word for disgust and nausea ASCO launched their response to turbent socio political conditions in Los Angeles and the larger international context through performance public art and mtimedia Geographically and cturally segregated from the then nascent Los Angeles contemporary art scene and aesthetically at odds with the emerging Chicano art movement ASCO united to explore and exploit what they saw as the unlimited media of the conceptual ASCO Elite of the Obscure includes reproductions of previously unpublished works and reprinted historical documents along with new critical essays
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