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West of center : art and the counterculture experiment in America, 1965-1977
Title
West of center : art and the counterculture experiment in America, 1965-1977 / Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, editors ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.
ISBN
9780816677252 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0816677255 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780816677269 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816677263 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ; [Denver, Colo.] : Published in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, c2012.
Physical Description
xxxvi, 389 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 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.
Variant and related titles
Art and the counterculture experiment in America, 1965-1977
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2012
Contents
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 Assarito
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.
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Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
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