Gronk

Name: Gronk
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ISBN: 9780895511058

ISBN-10: 0895511053

ISBN-13: 9780895511058

Edition: 2007

Authors: Max Benavidez, Chon A. Noriega

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Gronk was born in 1954 in the barrios of East Los Angeles. An autodidact by circumstance, he began his career as an urban muralist who had to look up the word "mural" to know whether he could paint one. Over time, he has grown into an international figure who has created grand sets for operas and computerized animation for panoramic screens. In this sweeping examination of Gronk's oeuvre, Max Benavidez elucidates how the artist can cross genres, sexual categories, and ethnic barriers, yet still remain true to himself. From street murals to mail art, from large-scale action painting to performance art and operatic set design, Gronk has made a lasting mark on the Chicano art movement, the…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 1/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Library boy : transit in the inscribed city


Painting history : the post-Chicano murals of Aztlan


Asco's no manifesto : the avant-garde in East Los Angeles


Dreva/Gronk : art gangsters


La Tormenta : the eternal enigma


Hotel Senator : portal to the underworld


Urban narrative : a world of secret affinities