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career took off in 1991. The two songs songs two The 1991. in off took career Latino youth who walked or bicycled up up bicycled or walked who youth Latino right now. There are other other are There now. right suous. suous. ical hu- ical

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IT’S BEEN SINCE SINCE BEEN IT’S for 23 years of full on LIFE! Let’s look look Let’s LIFE! on full of years 23 for Jonathan Hurtado, 18, described described 18, Hurtado, Jonathan ﬂ utter. But I don’t know if if know don’t I But utter. ﬂ strang- sick, or or sick,

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afterword by Richard Prince. My copy copy My Prince. Richard by afterword and ironically—referred to as Father G G Father as to ironically—referred and this album. Check it out on on out it Check album. this rity whose whose rity walk on on walk

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by his fearlessness and his romantic romantic his and fearlessness his by organization that serves high-risk, high-risk, serves that organization was virgin in the the in virgin was is the Jesus I seek. seek. I Jesus the is

PUSSY MAKE MAKE PUSSY gun in 2009. I’m continually moved moved continually I’m 2009. in gun founder of Homeboy Industries—an Industries—an Homeboy of founder the sacred prostitute prostitute sacred the fullness of life. That That life. of fullness Father G Father

who tragically took his own life with a a with life own his took tragically who & Schuster. Boyle, a Jesuit, is the the is Jesuit, a Boyle, Schuster. & still honored, honored, still perience known in the the in known perience ‘pisser-off-er’ in this regard. regard. this in ‘pisser-off-er’

OUT MONEY & & MONEY OUT Mortensen, a friend since high school, school, high since friend a Mortensen, by Free Press, a division of Simon Simon of division a Press, Free by dess of Love was was Love of dess tation to enter the God ex- God the enter to tation was an equal-opportunity equal-opportunity an was

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bad? Setback or progress? progress? or Setback bad? never-ending goal: Just Just goal: never-ending the gospel. the that tends tends that 42 43 44 49 37 40 41 46 48

45 47 50 38 1. When your parents advise you to “get an education” in order to raise your income,

they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to

provide manpower for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society. Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison, and you can successfully dropout in grade school. Get a college degree, if possible. With a B.A., you are on the launching pad. But now you have to start to put on the brakes. If you go What is good and what is is what and good is What him with an eternal, eternal, an with him ten) is, in fact, the enemy of of enemy the fact, in is, ten) tainment tainment 31 32 for a master’s degree, make sure it is an M.B.A., and its famous law of diminishing returns 26 30 begins to take effect. 27 33 34 Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full 35 professors? Yes, the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24,000. While the full 28 36 professors managed to earn just $23,030. A Ph.D. is the highest degree you can get. Except

you will face a dim future. There are more Ph.D.s unemployed or underemployed in this

country than any other part of the world. Poster: Stuart Bailey & Frances Stark 39 24 29 If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political 23 25 science or languages or—worst of all—in philosophy, you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands. Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands.

out applications month after month. They may also take a job in some high school or

backwater college that pays much less than the janitor earns. You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far. Far enough, that is, to make you useful to the

According to the writer, what the society expects of education is to turn out people who: success and what is failure? failure? is what and success and money provides provides money and A) will not be a disgrace to society for purity (nine times out of of out times (nine purity for of enter- of 21 B) will become loyal citizens C) can take care of themselves 16 D) can meet the nation’s demands as a source of manpower The nation is only interested in people: A) with diplomas B) who specialize in physics and chemistry

15 C) who are valuable to the gross national product

8 D) both A and C 14 17 The writer sees education as: country’s demands for technical workers B) a way to broaden one’s horizons

13 18 D) an opportunity that everyone should have Which of the following is not true? Text: excerpt from an English Reading Comprehension Test, 12 20 http://202.117.13.233/Englishonline/zhxl/YDXL/cet4reading/4read1.asp B) One must think carefully before pursuing a masters degree. egories than I do. What is is What do. I than egories look forward to, to, forward look sus shows us that the desire desire the that us shows sus the type type the 9 C) The higher your education level, the more money you will earn.

11 D) If you are too well-educated, you’ll be overeducated for society’s demands. 19 ON THE FUTURE OF ART SCHOOL SATURDAY JANUARY 27 2007 10 GIN D. WONG AUDITORIUM, HARRIS HALL 101, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A SYMPOSIUM MEANT TO OFFER ARTISTS, STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS A FORUM TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER WHAT WE WANT OUR SCHOOLS TO BE, WHAT WE WANT THEM TO DO;

HERE’S AN OPPORTUNITY TO FREELY IMAGINE WHAT SHOULD BE DONE, UNHINDERED BY 22 ADMINISTRATIVE WORRIES ABOUT WHAT CAN’T POSSIBLY BE DONE

A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION IN 3 PARTS : THE MEANING AND VALUE OF DEGREES / BETWEEN THE MARKET & THE ACADEMY / TOWARDS A CRITICAL FACULTY MAI ABU ELDAHAB, JAN VERWOERT, HOWARD SINGERMAN, LANE RELYEA & ROBERT LINSLEY * / MODERATED BY FRANCES STARK, STUART BAILEY & STUDENTS A RELATED PUBLICATION “PRIMER” IS AVAILABLE TO BUY (CHEAP) AS A BOOK OR DOWNLOAD AS PDFs FROM www.lulu.com USC GAYLE GARNER ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, WATT HALL 104 UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90089-0292 Tel 213.740.2787, http://roski.usc.edu/symposium

comfort with inverting cat- inverting with comfort something to to something the new purity code. And Je- And code. purity new the f r o m m o r f

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o r r o 1 Photo of Bobby taken by the artist in El Sereno, near 15 Frances, age 13, practicing for cheerleading tryouts 26 Still from Ingmar Bergman’s ﬁ lm adaptation of 39 Urban dictionary deﬁ nition of Spanish slang ‘puta 52 Found image of childbirth showing the entire head of 67 Shawn Mortensen, several of whose iconic portraits of

his home in Los Angeles. for Serrano Middle School whose team was The Mozart’s Magic ﬂ ute. madre’. ‘Puta’ means ‘fuck’ or ‘bitch’, and ‘madre’ the infant emerging from the mother’s vagina. rap legends appear here, was a friend of the artist since

pable pable rity code of the shot callers callers shot the of code rity Mother F Mother

t i o n n o i t Conquistadors. Photo by DeWayne Stark. means ‘mother’. Together they form an expletive high school. He took his own life 2009.

2 Photo taken by Lil Mikey, aka Ghost (now deceased) 27 Iconic portrait of Tupac Shakur taken by Shawn meaning ‘holy shit’ or ‘motherfucker’. In some regions, 53 On September 5, 1989 president George H. W. Bush

nca- tled irreparably with the pu- the with irreparably tled sump-

was my faith. my was of ‘Bobby’, age 15, posing with an AK-47 on one of his 16 Parable: An old lady discovers a snake mangled on the Mortensen in 1993. Tupac’s tattoo, ‘THUG LIFE’, is adding the singular article ‘la’ changes the meaning to (former director of the C.I.A.) appeared on television 68 Professor Frances Stark serving as Marshall for Roski

‘home trips’ allowed during an 18 month stay in a boy’s side of the road. She brings it home, nurses it back to an acronym for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks a compliment. presenting a bag of crack cocaine as a prop in a speech School of Art at USC’s commencement ceremony.

they can bear. […] Jesus jos- Jesus […] bear. can they con- definition of failure. This This failure. of definition home operating within the juvenile justice system. health, grows quite fond of the snake and treats him like Everyone’. meant to garner support for the nation’s war on drugs.

a pet. Once recovered he bites her and she cries out ‘Why 40 Edith Clifford, ‘Champion Sword Swallower of the The speech also can come across as an infomercial for 69 USC mascot Tommy Trojan in victory pose.

3 Saint Mary Magdalene by Gregor Erhart, c. 1515–20. did you do that!?’ and he answers ‘Lady, I’m a snake.’ 28 David with the Head of Goliath, 1597–98, Amerighi World’, lived 1886–1942 this inexpensive form of cocaine. DJ Quik DJ whose burdens are more than than more are burdens whose n o t t o n

somehow, from society’s society’s from somehow, Caravaggio (Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna) 70 The term ‘b/w’ means ‘backed with’ and refers to the

4 An augmented found drawing depicting ‘crowning,’ the 17 Evidence presented to the artist by a camp counselor on 41 GEO GROUP, one of the largest for-proﬁ t prison 54 Snapshot of Bobby with lil Mikey, aka Ghost, who was b-side or ﬂ ipside of vinyl single releases, the A-side deeply wounded and of those those of and wounded deeply enc e, e, enc tricks…

good and evil sense, exempt, exempt, sense, evil and good moment in childbirth when the head ﬁ rst appears. which is written her son’s name with a note to *TALK 29 Mark Leckey in the Long Tail, a performance at the corporations gave money to the University of Florida shot and killed at age 15 directly in front of the artist’s being the projected hit.

TO PARENTS*. Inside the bag is contraband (purloined Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on January sparking controversy about having their name on a son’s Montessori school in Echo Park in 2005.

it is: the vocabulary of the the of vocabulary the is: it peri- s t u d i o o i d u t s

al being… in the beyond beyond the in being… al 5 See [3] from his mother). 31, 2009 (Photo: Mark Blower). The ‘Long Tail’ de- college stadium. 71 See [70]

scribes a distribution model in contradistinction to the 55 Portrait of Frances Stark by Shawn Mortensen, 1994.

recognized for the language language the for recognized ic ex- ic ain’t no no ain’t some kind of supra-mor- of kind some 6 Bobby, in the studio, ready for a job interview at a 18 Page from USC’s magazine announcing the $70 ‘head’ or the mainstream. E.g. the Kardashians (head) 42 Ricky Ross was a drug kingpin with connections to 72 Photo of Bobby and the artist’s son taken in her studio.

medical marijuana clinic. million gift to create ‘The Jimmy Iovine and Andre vs. UbuWeb (tail). both the Nicuaraguan Contras and the CIA, best known 56 The Murder of Christ by Wilhelm Reich, 1953.

Young Academy for Arts, Technology and Business of for his role in the evolution of cocaine into crack. Rick 73 Saint Veronica (‘true icon’) seen in a detail from Christ haved, until bad behavior is is behavior bad until haved, aesthet- t h e s e e s e h t

(and/or potential artist) is is artist) potential (and/or 7 See [1] Innovation.’ Iovine and Young (aka Dr. Dre) are part- 30 Poster for 2011 performance Put a Song in your Thing, Ross, a former correctional facilities ofﬁ cer-turned-rap- 57 Magdalena, by Gheorghe Tattarescu, 19th c. Carrying the Cross, 1446, Biagio d’Antonio

ners in the company that sells Beats by Dre headphones. featuring Skerrit Bwoy with the artist Frances Stark. per, re-named himself after the legendary ﬁ gure.

the surly, and the badly be- badly the and surly, the a b o u t t u o b a it, cause cause it,

some level that an aesthete aesthete an that level some 8 Illustration showing Christians being tortured and Photo by Nadya Wasylko 58 Portrait of Bobby by the artist, 2012. The likeness to 74 DJ Quik headlined the ‘West Coast Fest’ 3/21/13 and

killed in the Roman Coliseum. 19 From: Schiff, Karen L. ‘Slow Reveal.’ Art in America. 43 Three ostensible gangbangers being arrested by a Magdalena [57] is purely coincidental. announced he’d be leaving the music business at the end

stand with the belligerent, belligerent, the with stand talking talking Now watch watch Now

denying that I believed on on believed I that denying June/July. 2013: p. 51. Caption: Martin in her New 31 The Book of David is the 8th studio album by Los L A P D o f ﬁ c e r . of the year.

9 Conquistadors (‘conquerors’) were soldiers who colo- York studio, 1960. Photo: Alexander Liberman. Angeles-based artist, DJ Quik, released by Mad Science 59 Illustration by Arthur Robins taken from the 1977

give us good ones… You You ones… good us give joy from. I’m I’m from. joy off a little bit. bit. little a off

saying it but there was no no was there but it saying nized the Americas with hopes of winning souls for God in 2011. 44 Form signed by patient, Frances Stark, declining per- book Where Did I Come From? written by Peter 75 Portrait of Biggie Smalls, aka Notorious B.I.G. (née

I while extracting great riches. They were responsible for 20 A symposium offering artists, students and educators a mission for USC medical students to be present while Mayle, ‘The facts of life without any nonsense and with Christopher George Latore Wallace, b. 1972) taken by

to work with those who who those with work to pacity to derive derive to pacity We gon’ show show gon’ We well, I never went around around went never I well, the near extermination of the native population. forum to seriously consider what we want our schools 32 Matisse and his Model, by Brassaï, 1930 the doctor performs her routine gynecological exam. illustrations’. Shawn Mortensen on March 8, 1997, the day before he

to be, and do; an opportunity to freely imagine what was shot and killed in Los Angeles.

10 Photograph of the artist’s son taken by Bobby in front should be done, unhindered by administrative worries 33 Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries 45 Cupid Making His Arch, c. 1533–1535, Parmigianino 60 1992 Portrait of Dr. Dre (née Andre Young, b. 1965) by sults, we will choose only only choose will we sults, erybody has the ca- the has erybody Check it out… out… it Check

by nature (like myself) and, and, myself) (like nature by of his grandmother’s house in East Los Angeles, across about what can’t possibly be done. Organized by the in Los Angeles, talking with a homie. Shawn Mortensen 76 Photo of Bobby’s best friend, now deceased, appearing

from General Hospital and USC Medical Center. artist, poster designed with Stuart Bailey. 46 The bible tells of the shepherd David slaying the giant as screensaver. 18 year old Jonathan Hurtado, aka J. f our primary goal is re- is goal primary our f and FREE activity ev- activity FREE and thin’ a little crazy. crazy. little a thin’

fundamentally an aesthete aesthete an fundamentally 34 Shawn Mortensen’s 1994 portrait of Ice Cube (a Philistine warrior Goliath. Today, ‘philistine’ means 61 Image taken from a blog poking fun at a guy who Gutta, was shot four times by a rival gang member in

11 A glass Pyrex measuring cup is a well-known tool used 21 Building of Castle Khawarnaq, wherein the chamber of founding member of N.W.A.) pictured reading the one who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, posted on the free online dating site OK Cupid. East Los Angeles in March, 2007.

the most basic, immediate immediate basic, most the tro, I’mma do some- do I’mma tro,

tionale was that my son was was son my that was tionale in process of turning cocaine into crack the seven icons will be hidden, by Bihzâd autobiography of Dick Gregory. or who has no understanding of them.

62 DJ Quik, nee David Blake (b. 1970) (photo credit 77 Internet meme originating from a song on Dr. Dre’s

Father G. Father ing, or meaning -making, is is -making, meaning or ing, in- my is this since Now crossed. The recurring ra- recurring The crossed. 12 Illustration of a scene in Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote 22 Etching by Anton Lehmden, Colosseum, 1959–61, from 35 Bobby assisting in the artist’s studio, cutting out bullet 47 See [45] unveriﬁ able) 1992 album The Chronic, in which Snoop Dogg sings

(1605), in which the titular protagonist (now synony- The Grunwald Collection, The Hammer Museum holes to be used in a collage. ‘Bitches ain’t shit but hos and tricks’.

mous with foolish idealism) encounters young Andres, 48 Bobby assisting in the artist’s studio. 63 Christ Giving His Blessing, Hans Memling 1478 its resulting understand- resulting its Rhythm-al-ism! of world front of you. of front

ateness boundaries to be be to boundaries ateness a picaro (young rogue), strapped to a tree being beaten 23 The mascot of the University of Southern California 36 Photo of Bobby, my son, and his two best friends 78 Portrait of the artist’s son by Shawn Mortensen, 2005.

by his master. Quixote exhorts the master to be fair and is Tommy Trojan scene here atop his horse named spray-painting on cardboard in my studio parking lot 49 The motto of Homeboy Industries is ‘Nothing stops a 64 El Lazarillo de Tormes, 1808–1812 by Francisco Goya. perceives’. Perception and and Perception perceives’. the to welcome night, the ing whoever’s sitting in in sitting whoever’s ing allowed so many appropri- many so allowed for my it, I I it, my for

L L stop his beating, and he complies, only to start up again ‘Traveler’ at USC’s home stadium, the Los Angeles overlooking The LA County Jail, aka Twin Towers. bullet like a job’. Founder and director Father ‘G’ gave El Lazarillo de Tormes is the name of a Spanish pica- 79 Bobby and the artist’s son in Hollenbeck Park, 2012

once the knight is out of sight. Like all poor boys in the Memorial Coliseum. Bobby his ﬁ rst job as an errand boy at age 13. resque novel.

keeps you from truly see- truly from you keeps who ‘one as simply of women and players to answer precisely why I I why precisely answer to

ing to pay that much much that pay to ing Spanish picaresque literary tradition, while blatantly 37 Frances Stark reads Flannery O’Conner’s Parker’s 80 Artist’s son inadvertently making a Jesus hand signal

the victim of exploitation, Andres is still no angel. 24 A Crip ﬁ ghts a Blood on a Los Angeles street. Back while modeling for her drawing class at USC with 50 Document showing technique used to ‘resurrect’ 2Pac 65 L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World), 1866 while wearing his DGK ‘I ❤ Haters!’ hat. The statement

you from being faithful, faithful, being from you ned deﬁ is ‘aesthete’ pimps, girls, and boys was continually struggling struggling continually was that if somebody was will- was somebody if that

en to to en Bobby and his childhood friend Mr. Martin. for a popular annual music festival. 2Pac—deceased Gustave Courbet meant to imply that envy is a motivation factor could

13 Sketch of Bobby made by a student during a live modeling 25 Mi Madre de los Angeles by Fabian Debora, 2009 since ’96—performed ‘live’ onstage in the form of a also be read as an attitude of love in the face of hate.

Salivating for success keeps keeps success for Salivating an speaking, iterally gentlemen, and adies side me and consequently I I consequently and me side a lot for it. So then I thought thought I then So it. for lot a ‘The pregnant heart is driv- is heart pregnant ‘The session in Prof. Stark’s intermediate drawing class at USC. reproduced for the cover of Jorja Leap’s Jumped In: 38 Message from Bobby to the artist (whose nickname hologram. 66 Ad for Dirty Ghetto Kids, or DGK, a clothing What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love, since infancy is Beanie): ‘beans, you a n***a now so you company my son became familiar with because of their 81 The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, 14 From The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb, 2009. and Redemption. Massachusets: Beacon Press, 2012. better harden up and stop acting like a lil soft cake’ 51 Edith Clifford, ‘Champion Sword Swallower’ ‘I ❤ Haters!’ hats. Diego Rivera, 1931