During the 1960s and 1970s in New York City, young artists
exploited an industrial wasteland to create spacious studios where
they lived and worked, redefining the Manhattan area just south of
Houston Street. Its use fueled not by city planning schemes but by
word-of-mouth recommendations, the area soon grew to become a
world-class center for artistic creation indeed, the largest urban
artists' colony ever in America, let alone the world.
Richard Kostelanetz's Artists' SoHo not only examines why the
artists came and how they accomplished what they did but also
delves into the lives and works of some of the most creative
personalities who lived there during that period, including Nam
June Paik, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Hannah
Wilke, George Macuinas, and Alan Suicide. Gallerists followed the
artists in fashioning themselves, their homes, their buildings, and
even their streets into transiently prominent exhibition and
performance spaces.
SoHo pioneer Richard Kostelanetz's extensively researched intimate
history is framed within a personal memoir that unearths myriad
perspectives: social and cultural history, the changing rules for
residency and ownership, the ethos of the community, the physical
layouts of the lofts, the types of art produced, venues that opened
and closed, the daily rhythm, and the gradual invasion of "new
people." Artists' SoHo also explores how and why this fertile
bohemia couldn't last forever. As wealthier people paid higher
prices, galleries left, younger artists settled elsewhere, and the
neighborhood became a "SoHo Mall" of trendy stores and restaurants.
Compelling and often humorous, Artists' SoHo provides an analysis
of a remarkable neighborhood that transformed the art and culture
of New York City over the past five decades.
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