| The Magazine Contributor(s): Allen, Gwen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262528665 ISBN-13: 9780262528665 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry |
| Dewey: 070.5 |
| LCCN: 2015036950 |
| Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.2" (1.20 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The artist's magazine as a place where new ideas and forms can be imagined and created, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. The multiple platforms of the digital era have not diminished the role of the magazine for artists as an alternative medium and experimental space. Whether printed on paper or electronically generated, the artist's magazine continues to be a place where new ideas and forms can be imagined as well as a significant site of artistic production. Intrinsically collaborative, including readers' active engagement, the magazine is an inherently open form that generates constantly evolving relationships. It was integral to the emergence of art criticism in the Enlightenment period and to the development of artistic dialogues around notions of culture, politics, and the public from the modern era avant-gardes to the present. This collection contextualizes the current condition and potential of the artist's magazine, surveying the art worlds it has created and then superseded; the commercial media forms it has critically appropriated, intervened in, or subverted; the alternative DIY cultures it has brought into being; and the expanded fields of cultural production, exchange, and distribution it continues to engender. In addition to surveying case studies of transformational magazines from the early 1960s onwards, The Magazine includes a wide-ranging archive of key editorial statements, from eighteenth-century Weimar to twenty-first century Bangkok, Cape Town, and Delhi. Artists surveyed include Writers include |
Contributor Bio(s): Allen, Gwen: - Gwen Allen is Associate Professor of History of Art at San Francisco University. She is the author of Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art (MIT Press). |
