Titre et auteur:

West of center : art and the counterculture experiment in America, 1965-1977 / Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, editors ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.

Publication:

[Denver, Colo.] : Published in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver ; Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Description:

xxvii, 389 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Nov. 10, 2011-Feb. 19, 2012 and at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Sept. 29, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : Memory as model / Lucy R. Lippard -- Introduction : The counterculture experiment : consciousness and encounters at the edge of art / Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner -- Part. I. Communal encounters. How to build a commune : Drop City's influence on the Southwestern Commune Movement / Erin Elder -- Collective movement : Anna and Lawrence Halprin's joint workshops / Eva J. Friedberg -- The Farm by the freeway / Jana Blankenship -- San Francisco video collectives and the counterculture / Deanne Pytlinski -- Part II. Handmade worlds -- Handmade genders : queer costuming in San Francisco circa 1970 / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Libre, Colorado, and the hand-built home / Amy Azzarito -- Craft and the handmade at Paolo Soleri's communal settlements / Elissa Auther -- Pond Farm and the summer craft experience / Jenni Sorkin -- Expanded cinema in Los Angeles : the single wing turquoise bird / David E. James -- Paper walls : political posters in an age of mass media / Tom WIlson -- Part III. Cultural politics. The print culture of Yolanda M. López / Karen Mary Davalos -- The countercultural 'Indian' : visualizing retribalization at the human be-in / Mark Watson -- Goddess : feminist art and spirituality in the 1970s / Jennie Klein -- The revolution will be visualized : Black Panther artist Emory Douglas / Colette Gaiter -- Out of the closets, into the woods : the post-Stonewall emergence of queer anti-urbanism / Scott Herring -- Part IV. Altered consciousness. Naked pictures : Ansel Adams and the Esalen Institute / Suzanne Hudson -- Techniques of survival : the Harrisons and the environmental counterculture / Amanda Boetzkes -- Countercultural intoxication : an aesthetics of transformation / Mark Harris -- Everywhere present yet nowhere visible : Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dharma art at the Naropa Institute / Bill Scheffe -- Signifying the ineffable : rock poster art and psychedelic counterculture in San Francisco / Scott B. Montgomery.

Résumé:

"A companion to an exhibition originating at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, this book illuminates how, in the western United States, the counterculture's unique integration of art practices, political action, and collaborative life activities serves as a linchpin connecting postwar and conempoart artistic endeavors."--p. [4] of cover.

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Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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ISBN:

9780816677252 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0816677255 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780816677269 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816677263 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Art and society West (U.S.) History 20th century Exhibitions.
Counterculture West (U.S.) History 20th century Exhibitions.
Art and society
Counterculture
Gegenkultur
Kunstproduktion
West United States
USA Weststaaten

Classification/genre:

Ausstellung Denver (Colo.) 2011.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Vedettes secondaires:

Auther, Elissa.
Lerner, Adam, 1966-
Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Art and the counterculture experiment in America, 1965-1977

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 275901
Cote: BIB 210318
Statut: Disponible