The New Art Examiner was the only successful art magazine ever
to come out of Chicago. It had nearly a three-decade long run, and
since its founding in 1974 by Jane Addams Allen and Derek Guthrie,
no art periodical published in the Windy City has lasted longer or
has achieved the critical mass of readers and admirers that it did.
The Essential New Art Examiner gathers the most
memorable and celebrated articles from this seminal publication.
First a newspaper, then a magazine, the New Art Examiner succeeded
unlike no other periodical of its time. Before the word "blog" was
ever spoken, it was the source of news and information for
Chicago-area artists. And as its reputation grew, the New Art
Examiner gained a national audience and exercised influence far
beyond the Midwest. As one critic put it, "it fought beyond its
weight class."
The articles in The Essential New Art Examiner are organized
chronologically. Each section of the
book begins with a new essay by the original editor of the pieces
therein that reconsiders the era and larger issues at play in the
art world when they were first published. The result is a
fascinating portrait of the individuals who ran the New Art
Examiner and an inside look at the artistic trends
and aesthetic agendas that guided it. Derek Guthrie and Jane Addams
Allen, for instance, had their own renegade style. James Yood never
shied away from a good fight. And Ann Wiens was heralded for
embracing technologies and design. The story of the New Art
Examiner is the story of a constantly evolving publication, shaped
by talented editors and the times in which it was printed.
Now, more than three decades after the journal's founding, The
Essential New Art Examiner brings together the best examples of
this groundbreaking publication: great editing, great writing, a
feisty staff who changed and adapted as circumstances dictated--a
publication that rolled with the times
and the art of the times. With passion, insight, and editorial
brilliance, the staff of the New Art Examiner turned a local
magazine into a national institution.
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