'This groundbreaking book--part exhibition catalogue, part cultural history--chronicles alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s. Developed from an exhibition of the same name at Exit Art, Alternative Histories documents more than 130 alternative spaces, groups, and projects, and the significant contributions these organizations have made to the aesthetic and social fabric of New York City. Alternative art spaces offer sites for experimentation for artists to innovate, perform, and exhibit outside the commercial gallery-and-museum circuit. In New York City, the development of alternative spaces was almost synonymous with the rise of the contemporary art scene. Beginning in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was within a network of alternative sites--including 112 Greene Street, The Kitchen, P.S.1, FOOD, and many others--that the work of young artists like Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, David Wojnarowicz, David Hammons, Adrian Piper, Martin Wong, Jimmie Durham, and dozens of other now familiar names first circulated.

'Through interviews, photographs, essays, and archival material, Alternative Histories tells the story of such famous sites and organizations as Judson Memorial Church, Anthology Film Archives, A.I.R. Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, Franklin Furnace, and Eyebeam, as well as many less well-known sites and organizations. Essays by the exhibition curators and scholars, and excerpts of interviews with alternative space founders and staff, provide cultural and 1historical context.' (from publisher's website)

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REF.ROL
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2012

No of pages

408

ISBN / ISSN

9780262017961

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Lauren ROSATI

On Creating Alternatives and 'Alternative Histories' - Mary Anne STANISZEWSKI

On Creating the Exhibition - Jeanette INGBERMAN

Alter the Native - Papo COLO

Alternatives Reconsidered - Jacki APPLE

Do It Yourself: Histories of Alternatives - Melissa RACHLEFF

In Other Words: The Alternative Space as Extra-Institution - Lauren ROSATI

Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010
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Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010