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.

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 res...

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Corporate Authors: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives (Issuing body, Publisher, Organizer)
University of Southern California. Library
ONE Gallery (West Hollywood, Calif.) (Host institution)
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (Host institution)
Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood, Calif.)
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Prestel Verlag (Publisher)
Other Authors: Chavoya, C. Ondine (Editor, Curator)
Frantz, David Evans (Editor, Curator)
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 1970- (Contributor)
Alvarado, Leticia, 1982- (Contributor)
Bryan-Wilson, Julia (Contributor)
Doonan, Simon, 1952- (Contributor)
Gunckel, Colin, 1975- (Contributor)
Guzmán, Joshua Javier (Contributor)
Ramos, Iván A. (Contributor)
Rodríguez, Richard T., 1971- (Contributor)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Text in English.
Published: Los Angeles, California : Munich, Germany : ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries ; DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.
Subjects:
Meza, Mundo, > 1955-1985 > Influence > Exhibitions.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives > 21st century > Exhibitions.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives (Los Angeles)
Artistic collaboration > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Gay culture > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Lesbian culture > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Mexican American art > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Arts, American > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Politics in art > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Arts > Political aspects > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art and social action > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
AIDS (Disease) and art > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Hispanic American gay artists > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Mexican American artists > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Gay artists > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Lesbian artists > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Archives > California > Los Angeles > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Essays.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Essays.
Physical Description:412 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 32 cm
Variant Title:
Queer networks in Chicano L.A.
Format: Book
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.