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Author Allen, Gwen, 1971-

Title Artists' magazines : an alternative space for art / Gwen Allen
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description viii, 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents This is not to be looked at : Artforum in the 1960s and 1970s -- The magazine as a medium : Aspen, 1965-1971 -- Art on and off the page : 0 to 9, 1967-69 -- An artists' magazine : Avalanche, 1970-76 -- The magazine as an alternative space : Art-rite, 1973-1978 -- The magazine as mirror : File, 1972-1989 -- Real life, 1979-1994 -- Epilogue : International activity : Interfunktionen, 1968-1975
Summary During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized practices of conceptual art. Allen looks at the most important of these magazines in their heyday and compiles an illustrated directory of hundreds of others
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Historiography.
Genre/Form Periodicals.
LC no. 2010022787
ISBN 0262015196 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262015196 (hardcover : alk. paper)