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Author:   Elissa Auther ,  Adam Lerner ,  Julia Bryan-Wilson ,  Eva Friedberg
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.052kg
ISBN:  

9780816677269

ISBN 10:   0816677263
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   02 November 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contents Foreword: Memory as Model Lucy R. Lippard Introduction. The Countercultural Experiment: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner I. Communal Encounters 1. How to Build a Commune: Drop City’s Influence on the Southwestern Commune Movement Erin Elder 2. Collective Movement: Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s Joint Workshops Eva J. Friedberg 3. The Farm by the Freeway Jana Blankenship 4. San Francisco Video Collectives and the Counterculture Deanne Pytlinski II. Handmade Worlds 5. Handmade Genders: Queer Costuming in San Francisco circa 1970 Julia Bryan-Wilson 6. Libre, Colorado, and the Hand-Built Home Amy Azzarito 7. Craft and the Handmade at Paolo Soleri’s Communal Settlements Elissa Auther 8. Pond Farm and the Summer Craft Experience Jenni Sorkin 9. Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird David E. James 10. Paper Walls: Political Posters in an Age of Mass Media Tom Wilson III. Cultural Politics 11. The Print Culture of Yolanda M. López Karen Mary Davalos 12. The Countercultural ""Indian"": Visualizing Retribalization at the Human Be-In Mark Watson 13. Goddess: Feminist Art and Spirituality in the 1970s Jennie Klein 14. The Revolution Will Be Visualized: Black Panther Artist Emory Douglas Colette Gaiter 15. Out of the Closets, Into the Woods: The Post-Stonewall Emergence of Queer Anti-urbanism Scott Herring IV. Altered Consciousness 16. Naked Pictures: Ansel Adams and the Esalen Institute Suzanne Hudson 17. Techniques of Survival: The Harrisons and the Environmental Counterculture Amanda Boetzkes 18. Countercultural Intoxication: An Aesthetics of Transformation Mark Harris 19. Everywhere Present Yet Nowhere Visible: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dharma Art at the Naropa Institute Bill Scheffel 20. Signifying the Ineffable: Rock Poster Art and Psychedelic Counterculture in San Francisco Scott B. Montgomery Acknowledgments Contributors Index"

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West of Center is an overview of the rich and complicated countercultural moment when different artistic practices shared a belief in and dedication to alternative methods and materials. From Drop City to Anna and Lawrence Halprin s workshops, from Paolo Soleri to Newton and Helen Harrison s ecological projects, this volume makes connections across disciplines and describes multi-faceted influences on the art of today. Chip Lord, Founder and partner with Ant Farm, 1968 - 1978

West of Center is an overview of the rich and complicated countercultural moment when different artistic practices shared a belief in and dedication to alternative methods and materials. From Drop City to Anna and Lawrence Halprin's workshops, from Paolo Soleri to Newton and Helen Harrison's ecological projects, this volume makes connections across disciplines and describes multi-faceted influences on the art of today. --Chip Lord, Founder and partner with Ant Farm, 1968 - 1978

<p> West of Center is an overview of the rich and complicated countercultural moment when different artistic practices shared a belief in and dedication to alternative methods and materials. From Drop City to Anna and Lawrence Halprin's workshops, from Paolo Soleri to Newton and Helen Harrison's ecological projects, this volume makes connections across disciplines and describes multi-faceted influences on the art of today. --Chip Lord, Founder and partner with Ant Farm, 1968 - 1978

Author Information

Elissa Auther is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (Minnesota, 2010). Adam Lerner is director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and chief animator in the Department of Fabrications. Lucy R. Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist, and curator. She is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art and has written art criticism for Art in America, The Village Voice, and Z Magazine, among other publications.

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