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Author Sant, Toni

Title Franklin Furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde : a history of the future / Toni Sant
Published Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations
Contents Franklin Furnace : a timeline -- A long conversation with Martha Wilson -- Art and the loft law in downtown New York City / Paul M. Gulielmetti -- Money and art at Franklin Furnace in the early years / Barbara Quinn -- Some of my performances in retrospect / Annie Sprinkle -- When Franklin Furnace went virtual / Robert Galinsky -- Exemplary quality irreverence / Adrianne Wortzel -- You can't stay avant-garde / David S. Perlmutter -- Broadcasting artists' ideas -- Virtually live -- Preserving the avant-garde -- Franklin Furnace publications
Summary Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content. Over more than thirty years, Franklin Furnace has exhibited works by hundreds of avant-garde artists, some of whom - Laurie Anderson, Vito Acconci and the Blue Man Group, to name a few - are now established names in contemporary art. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive history of this remarkable organization from its conception to the present. Organized around the context of the major art genres that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, this book intersperses first-person narratives with readings by artists and scholars on issues critical to the organization's success as well as Franklin Furnace's many contributions to avant-garde art
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Franklin Furnace (Archive) -- History
SUBJECT Franklin Furnace (Archive) fast
Subject Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Arts -- Experimental methods -- History -- 20th century
Arts -- Experimental methods -- History -- 21st century
ART -- History -- General.
Arts -- Experimental methods
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010035198
ISBN 1841504432
9781841504438