The downtown book the New York art scene, 1974 - 1984
The downtown book: the New York art scene, 1974 - 1984

Downtown is more than just a location, it's an attitude--and in the 1970s and '80s, that attitude forever changed the face of America. This book charts the intricate web of influences that shaped the generation of experimental and outsider artists working in Downtown New York during the cr...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] Princeton Univ. Press 2006
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1900-2000
Geschichte 1974-1984
Geschichte
Arts, American > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
Punk culture > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century
New York, NY
Ausstellungskatalog > 2006 > New York, NY
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Zusammenfassung:Downtown is more than just a location, it's an attitude--and in the 1970s and '80s, that attitude forever changed the face of America. This book charts the intricate web of influences that shaped the generation of experimental and outsider artists working in Downtown New York during the crucial decade from 1974 to 1984. Published in conjunction with the first major exhibition of downtown art (organized by New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library), The Downtown Book brings the Downtown art scene to life, exploring everything from Punk rock to performance art. The book probes trends that arose in the 1970s and solidified New York's reputation as arbiter of the postmodern American avant-garde. By 1974, the hippie euphoria of the previous decade, with its optimism, free love, and paeans to personal fulfillment, was over. In its place emerged a new kind of experimentation--in art, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The seven essays featured here examine from different perspectives how Downtown artists constantly pushed the limits of both traditional media and the art world. Art critic Carlo McCormick addresses the energy, power, drugs, and nonstop erotic motion that propelled the scene. Music historian Bernard Gendron explores how minimalism, loft jazz, and Punk all occupied the same Downtown spaces. RoseLee Goldberg, the noted scholar and critic of performance art, looks back at ten years of its ascendancy Downtown. English professor Robert Siegle casts a critical eye on the literature of the Downtown scene. Librarian and archivist Marvin J. Taylor surveys Downtown as both geography and metaphor, and grapples with the question of how best to organize and preserve materials that often challenge the very notion of the archive.
Beschreibung:Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Grey Art Gallery and the Fales Library, New York University, Jan. 10-Apr. 1, 2006; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, May 20-Sept. 3, 2006; and the Austin Museum of Art, Nov. 11, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index -- Includes discography: p. 200 -- Includes filmography: p. 199-200
Beschreibung:208 S. zahlr. Ill. 21 cm
ISBN:0691122865
9780691122861

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