An autobiography from author, critic and journalist Jill Johnston. Among other things, Johnston recalls a childhood in which all of her authority figures and role models were female, forming a career during the early sixties, and the conflict between working and motherhood. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1981. Edited by Wendy Perron and Daniel J. Cameron. Text by Jill Johnston and Sally Banes. Illustrated in black-and-white. ... [details]
Collection of writings on the West Village figure Howard Moody. Edited by Annette Kuhn, with writing by Al Carmines, Robert Newman, Paul Spike, Robert Nichols, Grace Paley, Edwin Fancher, Seymour Krim, Carman Moore, Joel Oppenheimer, Jill Johnston, Carolee Schneemann, Phyllis Yampolsky, Jon Hendricks, Lil Picard, Nat Hentoff, and Harvey G. ... [details]
Fall 1975 issue of Art-Rite, on Performance, edited by Edit deAk and Walter Robinson. Contents include: "Warm-Up," by David Antin; "Ralston Farina," by A.R.; "A Few Things We Know About Her," by John Howell; "Performance: A comment from Outside," by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; "Performance: State of the Art in Arts," by John Howell; "Camoflage: Films by Holt & Horn," by Lucy R. ... [details]
Documentary monograph on the work of John Cage. Edited by Richard Kostelanetz. General editor: Paul Cummings. Texts by John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz, Ellsworth J. Snyder, Richard Barnes, Pence James, Virgil Thomson, Henry Cowell, Al Hansen, Dore Ashton, Richard Teitelbaum, Edward Downes, Jill Johnston, Eric Salzman, Ninette Lyon, Michael Zwerin, Daniel Charles, and Barbara Rose. ... [details]
Flyer for a Dialogue on Women's Liberation held at Town Hall, New York, April 30, [1971]. Panelists included Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, Norman Mailer, and Diana Trilling. [details]
Press Release for a performance "A Depth Charge into the Avant-Garde" held October 6, 1968. "Featured will be Jill Johnston, Village Voice dance critic ; Allan Kaprow, creator of happenings ; Barbara Lloyd, Merce Cunningham dancer ; Les Levine, artist ; Meredith Monk, new dance exponent ; and Gordon Mumma, electronic composer. ... [details]
Oversized program for three performances held on March 7, 1967 at Loeb Student Center of New York University. Performances included Robert Rauschenberg's "Outskirts" performed by Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Barbara Lloyd, Yvonne Rainer, and Elaine Sturtevant; "Critic" by Les Levine performed by critics Nicholas Callas, Michael Benedikt, Brian O'Doherty, Annette Mitchelson, John Gruen, Julia Gruen, Irving Sandler, Peter Schjeldahl, Jill Johnston, Gene Swenson, Max Kozloff, Ted Berrigan, John Perreault, and David Bourdon' and "Raspberry" by John Giorno read by Rainer, Rauschenberg and Schjeldahl. [details]
Issue edited by Philip Leider. Essays "Harnett, Peto and Haberle in La Jolla," by Alfred Frankenstein; "Twelve Chicago Artists at the Walker," by Whitney Halstead; "An Interview with Helen Frankenthaler," by Henry Geldzahler; "Tribute to Simon Rodia," by Alfred H. ... [details]
A collection of criticisms and essays on the people, places and events that revolutionized the art world during the 1960s. Contributions from Harris Dienstfrey on Film, Richard Kostelanetz on Theater and Fiction, Max Kozloff on Painting, Jonathan Cott on Poetry, Jill Johnston on Dance and Eric Salzman on Music. ... [details]
