Asco

Holly Barnet-Sanchez, of the University of New Mexico, contributed a chapter - Chicano/a Critical Practices: Reflections on Tomás Ybarra-Frausto’s Concept of Rasquachismo - to Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures (2007) edited by Kobena Mercer. One of four books in a series titled Annotating Art’s Histories, jointly published by The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Iniva the Institute of International Visual Arts, London. The chapter referenced, and featured an Asco archival image, Walking Mural, from 24 December 1972. Within the chapter, Asco were described as follows: “pioneering public, performance and conceptual work of the Chicano/a collective Asco (1971-1987), formed by Harry Gamboa Jr, Gronk, Willie Herron and Patssi Valdez in East Los Angeles that ‘set out to test the limits of art - its production, distribution, reception, and exhibition’.” [quote footnoted at the end of the chapter].

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Book relating to a publication, 2007