Artists' Magazines
An Alternative Space for Art
$84.86
- Paperback
376 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2015
Summary
How artists’ magazines, in all their ephemerality, materiality, and temporary intensity, challenged mainstream art criticism and the gallery system.During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized practices of conceptual art. Artists created works expressly for these mass-produced, hand-editioned pages, using the ephemerality and the materiality of the magazine to challenge the conven…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262528412 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026252841X |
| Author: | Gwen Allen |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 1.10kg |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 191mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Artists' Magazines |
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Critics Review
…amongst the most thorough discursions into the influence of little magazines upon late-twentieth-century visual culture…it is great to read for its well-researched history and analysis of a period when little magazines were testing the waters of art and publishing.
* Eye *[An] intently researched valentine to vintage small-press heroics.
– Martin Herbert * Art Review *About The Author
Gwen Allen
Gwen Allen is Associate Professor of History of Art at San Francisco University. She is the author of Artists’ Magazines- An Alternative Space for Art (MIT Press).
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