Title & Author:

Alternative histories : New York art spaces, 1960 to 2010 / edited by Lauren Rosati and Mary Anne Staniszewski, Exit Art.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2012]

Description:

404 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Lauren Rosati -- On creating alternatives and "alternative histories" / Mary Anne Staniszewski -- On creating the exhibition / Jeanette Ingberman -- Alter the native / Papo Colo -- Alternatives reconsidered / Jacki Apple -- Do it yourself : histories of alternatives / Melissa Rachleff -- In other words : the alternative space as extra-institution / Lauren Rosati -- Introduction to interviews / Herb Tam : Steve Cannon ; Rhys Chatham ; Peter Cramer & Jack Waters ; Carol Goodden ; Alanna Heiss ; Bob Lee ; Joe Lewis ; Inverna Lockpez ; Ann Philbin ; Anne Sherwood Pundyk & Karen Yama ; Irving Sandler ; Adam Simon ; Martha Wilson -- Spaces/Projects : Precursors ; 1960s ; 1970s ; 1980s ; 1990s ; 2000s.

Summary:

"This groundbreaking book--part exhibition catalogue, part cultural history--chronicles alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s. Developed from an exhibition of the same name at Exit Art, Alternative Histories documents more than 140 alternative spaces, groups, and projects, and the significant contributions these organizations have made to the aesthetic and social fabric of New York City. Alternative art spaces offer sites for experimentation for artists to innovate, perform, and exhibit outside the commercial gallery-and-museum circuit. In New York City, the development of alternative spaces was almost synonymous with the rise of the contemporary art scene. Beginning in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was within a network of alternative sites--including 112 Greene Street, The Kitchen, P.S.1, FOOD, and many others--that the work of young artists like Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, David Wojnarowicz, David Hammons, Adrian Piper, Martin Wong, Jimmie Durham, and dozens of other now familiar names first circulated. Through interviews, photographs, essays, and archival material, Alternative Histories tells the story of such famous venues as Judson Memorial Church, Anthology Film Archives, A.I.R. Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, Franklin Furnace, and Eyebeam, as well as many less well-known sites and organizations."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9780262017961 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262017962 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art, American New York (State) New York 20th century.
Alternative spaces (Arts facilities) New York (State) New York.
Art américain New York (État) New York 20e siècle.
Centres d'artistes autogérés New York (État) New York.
Alternative spaces (Arts facilities)
Art, American.
Kunst
Alternativbewegung
Ausstellungsraum
Kunstbetrieb
Kultur
Konst historia.
New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Interviews.

Added entries:

Rosati, Lauren, 1985- editor.
Staniszewski, Mary Anne, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280428
Call No.: BIB 217129
Status: Available