À La Mode
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Object Details
- Date
- 1976, printed 2010
- Artist
- Asco, active 1971-1987
- Harry Gamboa, Jr., born Los Angeles, CA 1951
- Gronk, born Los Angeles, CA 1954
- Willie F. Herrón III, born Los Angeles, CA 1951
- Patssi Valdez, born Los Angeles, CA 1951
- Photographer
- Harry Gamboa, Jr., born Los Angeles, CA 1951
- Exhibition Label
- The now-defunct conceptual art group Asco coined the phrase “No Movie” to refer to their fabricated film stills of nonexistent films. One such production, À la Mode, features a glamorous Patssi Valdez sandwiched between two men (Gronk and Harry Gamboa) as if to suggest a love-triangle movie plot. Asco circulated this image to news outlets where it was published as evidence of a real film. Asco’s media interventions, which placed Chicanos in control of their own public images, reveal the hunger for a broader range of Latino representations.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © 1976, Harry Gamboa, Jr.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 2013.44.2
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- image: 12 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (32.4 x 47.6 cm) sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- saam_2013.44.2