Title & Author:

Hippie modernism : the struggle for utopia / [edited by Andrew Blauvelt] ; with contributions by Andrew Blauvelt [and seventeen others].

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, [2015]
©2015

Description:

448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 24, 2015- February 28, 2016; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 19-October 9, 2016; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, February 8-May 21, 2017.
Includes work by: Isaac Abrams; Acid Tests; Ant Farm; Archigram (Peter Cook); Archigram (David Greene); Archigram (Ron Herron); Archigram (Michael Webb); Archizoom Associati; Aspen; Steve Baer; Jordan Belson; Boyle Family; Stewart Brand; Ira Cohen; Bruce Conner; Dick Dahlgren; François Dallegret; Sheila Levrant de Bretteville; The Diggers; Documerica; Emory Douglas; Drop City; Öyvind Fahlström; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and Marshall McLuhan; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and R. Buckminster Fuller; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and Jerry Rubin; Free City Collective; Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, and Franco Teodoro; Clay Geerdes; Global Tools; Gorilla Graphics and Kamikaze Design; Gary Grimshaw; Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison; Jack Hatfield; Jack Hatfield and Louis Sozzi; Fayette Hauser; Haus-Rucker-Co; Alfred Henry Heineken and N. John Habraken; Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson; Barbara Isaacs; Ken Isaacs; Sture Johannesson; Lloyd Kahn; Kaleidoscope Graphics; Alton Kelley; Corita Kent; Ugo La Pietra; Bud Lee; Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'Urbino, Jonathan De Pas, and Carla Scolari; Carl Lundgren and Victor Skrebnewski; Carl Lundgren and Jerry Younkins; Bonnie MacLean and Herb Greene; Roberto Mardones; Tony Martin; Katherine McCoy and Michael McCoy; Katherine McCoy and Edward Fella; Victor Moscoso; Stanley Mouse; Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, and Michael Bowen; Ted Nelson; Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; ONYX (Mike Hinge); ONYX (Ron Williams); ONYX (Woodson Rainey); Oz; Victor Papnek; Victor Papnek and George Seegers; Victor Papanek and James Hennessey; Gaetano Pesce; Gregory Pickup; Provo; Radical Software; Elias Romero; Evelyn Roth; Lucas Samaras; Scanlan's Monthly; Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, and Ant Farm; Alan Shields; David Singer; David and Satty Singer; Ettore Sottsass; Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs; Gerd Stern; Superstudio; UFO; USCO; John Van Hamersveld; Videofreex; John Whitney; Whole Earth Catalog; Judith Williams; Allen Willis; Wes Wilson, Wes Wilson and Dean Cail; and Wes Wilson and Jerry Uelsmann.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-440) and index.
Foreword/Olga Viso -- Preface/Andrew Blauvelt -- Essays : The barricade and the dance floor: aesthetic radicalism and the counterculture / Andrew Blauvelt -- Atmospheres of institutional critique: Haus-Rucker-Co's Pnematic temporality / Esther Choi -- Agency and urgency: the medium and its message / Lorraine Wild and David Karwan -- From east to west and back again: utopianism in Italian radical design / Catherine Rossi -- Buckminster Fuller's Reindeer abattoir and other designs for the real world / Alison J. Clarke -- It's not easy being "free" / Craig J. Peariso -- Counterculture Terroir: California's hippie enterprise zone / Greg Castillo -- Networks and apparatuses, circa 1971: or, Hippies meet cmputers / Felicity D. Scott -- Mandalas or raised fists?: Hippie holism, Panther totality, and another modernism / Simon Sadler -- How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design / Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro -- Radical bodies / Ross K. Elfline -- Works : Section I: Turn on -- Section II: Tune in -- Section III: Drop out -- Advertisements for a counter culture -- Interviews : Enter the matrix: an interview with Ken Isaacs / Susan Snodgrass -- Toward a stroboscopic history: an interview with Gerd Stern of USCO / Tina Rivers Ryan -- Domes, droppers, and the ultimate painting: an interview with Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit / Adam Gildar -- On covers, connections, and criticality: an interview with Günter Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co / Esther Choi -- Stirring the intermix: an interview with Tony Martin / Liz Glass -- Unspeakable signs: an interview with Woodson ("Woody") Rainy and Ron Williams of ONYX / Esther Choi -- Blueprint for counter education: an interview with Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- "One, two: a hundred, a thousand global tools": an interview with Franco Raggi / Andrew Blauvelt -- Exhibition checklist.

Summary:

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia accompanies an exhibition of the same title examining the art, architecture and design of the counter-culture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal and professional norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus Rucker Co and ONYX; the media-based installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills and Mark Boyle and Helio Oiticica and Neville DAlmeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances staged by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as Oz Magazine and The Whole Earth Catalog and books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much, much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the experimental graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan of USCO, Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus Rucker Co, Ken Isaacs, Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX, Franco Raggi of Global Tools, Tony Martin, Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City, and new scholarly writings, this book explores the hybrid conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.

ISBN:

9781935963097 (paperback)
1935963090 (paperback)

Subject:

Modernism (Art) Exhibitions.
Arts, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Counterculture History 20th century Exhibitions.
Arts and society History 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernisme (Art) Expositions.
Arts 20e siècle Expositions.
Contre-culture Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts et société Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts, Modern Exhibitions 20th century.
Counterculture History Exhibitions 20th century.
Arts and society History Exhibitions 20th century.
Arts and society.
Arts, Modern.
Counterculture.
Modernism (Art)
Gegenkultur
Hippie
Kunst
Protestbewegung
Modern konst utställningar.
Undergroundkultur historia utställningar.
Konst och samhälle historia utställningar.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
History.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Blauvelt, Andrew, 1964- editor, author.
Walker Art Center, organizer, host institution.
Cranbrook Art Museum, host institution.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291204
Call No.: BIB 234680
Status: Available