URBAN RENAISSANCE.(Review)

Afterimage | March 1, 2000| | Copyright

Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr.

edited by Chon A. Noriega

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998

568 pp./$74.95 (hb), $29.95 (sb)

Beginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it might encompass. The four original members--Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie Herron and Patssi Valdez--moved between media ...

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