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Gronkby Max Benvidez 2007 132 pages Soft and hard cover 89 color illustrations 7.5 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-89551-105-8 (hard cover) Distributed by the University of Minnesota Press
"Benavidez's well-researched text, generously illustrated by Gronk's art and photographs from the artist's life, we come to understand not only the importance of his art but also the personal and historical events that inform his artistic vision." — Daniel A Olivas, El Paso Times, March 25, 2007 In this sweeping examination of Gronk’s oeuvre, Max Benavidez elucidates how the artist can cross genres, sexual categories, and ethnic barriers, yet 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 punk scene, gay art, and the cultural world stage. What Benavidez ultimately reveals is Gronk’s uncanny power to reinvent himself and his art, moving through one vivid artistic and subcultural scene to another. Add large doses of Gronk’s wit, irony, and talent, and you have the story of his major contribution, not only to Chicano culture but also to late-twentieth-century art. Available online from the University of Minnesota Press
Media reviews of Gronk"Readers of Maz Benavidez's Gronk are invited us to see the enigma of this artist’s work and his original and constructed non-identity as inescapably related: the artist and the anti-artist, his life and his career." From "Biography: Gronk: The Anti-Artist," by Maree Boyce "Filled with full-color images printed on glossy stock, this volume is a pleasure to leaf through." From "Book Alert: Gronk," by Steve Goddard Steve Godard's History Wire June 2007 "'Chicano/gay' hardly begins to impart the melange of traits, styles, and penchants relating to the artist known as Gronk." Midwest Book Review June 2007 "Biography Adds to Understanding of Chicano Art," by Daniel A. Olivas, El Paso Times, March 25, 2007 Reissued in La Bloga, March 26, 2007 "Gronk's experiments as a muralist performance artist, painter, set designer and conceptual provocateur have hardly gon unnoticed.... He receives yet another dose of Major Artist treatment with the publication of a scholarly monograph offering a midcareer overview of his life and work." From "Gronk: Taking a Look Behind the Curtain," by Hugh Hart Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2007
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