Title & Author:

Mixed use, Manhattan : photography and related practices, 1970s to the present / edited by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp ; with Kristin Poor.

Publication:

Description:

303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalog accompanying an exhibition opening at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid in the spring of 2010.
Includes bibliographical references.
The destruction of Lower Manhattan / Danny Lyon -- From site to non-site : an introduction to Mixed use, Manhattan / Lynne Cooke -- Projects: Pier 18 / Shunk-Kender -- Action around the edges / Douglas Crimp -- Styles of occupation : Manhattan in experimental film and video from the 1970s to the present / Juan A. Suárez -- Arthur Rimbaud in New York, untitled (David Wojnarowicz project) / David Wojnarowicz, Emily Roysdon -- Losing the form in darkness / David Wojnarowicz -- New York, beside itself / Johanna Burton -- The powers of removal : interventions in the name of the city / Lytle Shaw -- Housing in New York : a brief history / Glenn Ligon.

Summary:

"When recession-plagued New York City abandoned its industrial base in the 1970s, performance artists, photographers, and filmmakers found their own mixed uses for the city's run-down lofts, abandoned piers, vacant lots, and deserted streets. Gordon Matta-Clark turned a sanitation pier into the celebrated work Day's End and Betsy Sussler filmed its making; the photographic team Shunk-Kender shot a vast series of images of Willoughby Sharp's Projects: Pier 18 (which included work by Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Dan Graham, Matta-Clark, and William Wegman, among others); and Cindy Sherman staged some of her Untitled Film Stills on the streets of Lower Manhattan. Mixed Use, Manhattan documents and illustrates these projects as well as more recent work by artists who continue to engage with the city's public, underground, and improvised spaces. The book (which accompanies a major exhibition) focuses on several important photographic series: Peter Hujar's 1976 nighttime photographs of Manhattan's West Side; Alvin Baltrop's Hudson River pier photographs from 1975-1985, most of which have never before been shown or published; David Wojnarowicz's Rimbaud in New York (1978-1979), the first of Wojnarowicz's works to be published; and several of Zoe Leonard's photographic projects from the late 1990s on. The book includes 70 color and 130 black-and-white images, a chronology of the policy decisions and developments that altered the face of New York City from 1950 to the present; an autobiographical story by David Wojnarowicz; and essays by Johanna Burton, Lytle Shaw, Juan Suarez, and the exhibition's curators, Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp."

ISBN:

9780262014823 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262014823 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Arts, American New York (State) New York 20th century.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography New York (State) New York.
Arts and society New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Artists New York (State) New York Social conditions 20th century.
Arts américains New York (État) New York 20e siècle.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie New York (État) New York.
Arts et société New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
art photography.
Artists Social conditions
Arts, American
Arts and society
Photography
Social conditions
Motiv.
Photographie.
Performance.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) In art.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century.
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York Manhattan
New York-Manhattan.

Form/genre:

Photography, Artistic.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Art
History
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Cooke, Lynne.
Crimp, Douglas.
Poor, Kristin.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

Photography and related practices, 1970s to the present

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270098
Call No.: BIB 202756
Status: Available