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Carlos Villa, worlds in collision, edited by Mark Dean Johnson and Trisha Lagaso Goldberg with Sherwin Rio ; with contributions by Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Patrick D. Flores, Luis H. Francia, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Paul J. Karlstrom, Lucy R. Lippard, Margo Machida, and Sherwin Rio

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Carlos Villa

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edited by Mark Dean Johnson and Trisha Lagaso Goldberg with Sherwin Rio ; with contributions by Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Patrick D. Flores, Luis H. Francia, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Paul J. Karlstrom, Lucy R. Lippard, Margo Machida, and Sherwin Rio

worlds in collision

"Carlos Villa has been described as the preeminent Filipino American artist--a legend in artistic circles for his groundbreaking approaches and his influence on countless artists--but he remains little known to many fans and scholars of modern and contemporary art. Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision is the first museum retrospective of his work, presented at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Villa was trained at the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist, and over time he transformed his practice to address issues of ethnic and cultural diversity. He concurrently assumed a leadership role in 'Third World' and 'multicultural' international art movements, and his large-scale works reference non-Western traditions, including tattoo, scarification, ritual, and ceremony. He was also an important theorist, curator, and organizer of public forums that he called 'actions.' This book traces the arc of his career from 1969 until his death in 2013, with emphasis on his feathered works from the 1970s, as well as later works that address aspects of the history of Filipinos in the United States. It illuminates the social and cultural roots--and global importance--of Villa's art and teaching career as he sought to forge a new kind of art-world inclusion that reflected his own experience, commitment to diversity, and boundary-bending imagination"--, Provided by publisher

Acknowledgements / Jennifer Rissler -- Preface: Tracing Carlos Villa's path / Jay Xu -- Foreword: Making the world smaller : Carlos Villa's polyculturalism / Lucy R. Lippard -- Introduction: Roots, Rituals and Actions : worlds in collision / Mark Dean Johnson and Trisha Lagaso-Goldberg -- Carlos Villa : Ascent against the odds / Paul Karlstrom -- Portfolio: Ethnographic inspirations : works from the 1970s / Mark Dean Johnson, Trisha Lagaso-Goldberg, and Sherwin Rio -- Transcultural sampling : the reimagined worlds of Carlos Villa / Margo Machida -- Portfolio: A smaller world : Carlos Villa and the global collections at the Newark Museum / Tricia Laughlin Bloom -- Villa's fake book / Theodore S. Gonzalves -- America is in his art : Carlos Villa's poetics of multiculturalism / Luis H. Francia -- Portfolio: Words in space : Carlos Villa's 1990s notepad drawings / Mark Dean Johnson, Trisha Lagaso-Goldberg, and Sherwin Rio -- Worlds in collision, exploding galaxy, voyage into the absolute / Patrick D. Flores -- Catalogue / Mark Dean Johnson and Sherwin Rio -- Chronology / Sherwin Rio -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Index