By the mid-1960s, New York's art establishment -- its major museums
and galleries -- had ceased to reflect the city's diversity and had
largely ignored the decade's social, political, and cultural
ferment. In response, marginalized artists created an oppositional
network of organizations, exhibit spaces, and cooperative galleries
that both paralleled and challenged the status quo. This
alternative art movement flourished for more than two decades,
repositioning New York at the center of international contemporary
art. Alternative Art New York brings together a diverse group of
artists and critics to explore the origins and evolution of this
diffuse and vibrant cultural scene from a variety of perspectives:
political, philosophical, organizational, economic, and aesthetic.
Locating the movement within both the art world and its larger
social and political context, these authors decipher the shifting
configurations of cultural power in this period and the complex
relationship between the mainstream and the marginal. With a
unique, annotated chronology of the alternative art scene from 1965
to 1985, and illustrated with 150 images of key works,
installations, and exhibits; reproductions of posters, communiques,
and other ephemera; and photographs of protests and meetings, this
volume is an important work of contemporary art history and a
valuable sourcebook that suggests the basis for the return of an
artist-driven cultural economy.
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