Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 4-Dec. 4, 2011, at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., Feb. 4-July 29, 2012, and at other venues at later dates.
Contents:
Director's forewords / Lisa G. Corrin, Michael Govan -- Elite of the obscure: an introduction / C. Ondine Chavoya and Rita Gonzalez -- Asco and the politics of revulsion / C. Ondine Chavoya and Rita Gonzalez -- "Traitor prophets": Asco's art as a politics of the in-between / Amelia Jones -- "We were drawing and drawn into each other": Asco's collaboration through regeneración / Colin Gunckel -- No movies: projecting the real by rejecting the reel / David E. James -- A part and apart: contextualizing Asco / Deborah Cullen -- Asco's super-8 cinema and the specter of muralism / Jesse Lerner -- Conceptual graffiti and the public art museum: Spray paint LACMA / Chon A. Noriega -- Graphic insight: Genocide patrol and the origins of Harry Gamboa, Jr.'s critical aesthetic / Raúl Homero Villa -- Painting diagonally: an archive of resistance and "a sensory form of strangeness" / Mario Ontiveros -- Conceptionally divine: Patssi Valdez's Virgen of Guadalupe walking the mural / Tere Romo -- Art and life: Dreva/Gronk / C. Ondine Chavoya -- Ray Johnson and Asco: correspondences / C. Ondine Chavoya -- Synchronies between Asco and No Grupo / Maris Bustamante -- Frida, homeboys, and the Butch Gardens School of Fine Art / Rita Gonzalez -- We love Patssi so much: Patssi Valdez's surrealist looks / Ramón Gonzalez -- The Style Council: Asco, music, and "Punk Chola" aesthetics, 1980-84 / Michelle Habell-Pallán -- The vex and unpopular cultures / C. Ondine Chavoya -- The personal equator: Patssi Valdez at the border / Josh Kun -- Asco Wilde / David Román -- Documents : Chicano art lives in East L.A.: "a true barrio art" (1972) / Eddie (Edy) Ytuarte ; Gronk and Herrón: muralists (1976) / Harry Gamboa, Jr. and Gronk -- Interview: Gronk and Gamboa (1976) / Harry Gamboa, Jr. and Gronk -- A letter from Dreva, excerpt, and Dreva questions Dreva (1980) / Jerry Dreva -- Brown in black and white (1982) / Shifra M. Goldman -- Harry Gamboa, Jr.: no movie maker (1983) / Marisela Norte -- Asco: Camus, Daffy Duck, and Devil Girls from East L.A. (1987) / Linda Frye Burnham