Large-scale survey publication of "New Art," published in 1984. Edited by Phyllis Freeman, Eric Himmel, Edith Pavese, and Anne Yarowsky. Artists include: Vito Acconci, John Ahearn, Laurie Anderson, Giovanni Anselmo, Richard Artschwager, Alice Aycock, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Jean Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, James Biederman, Jonathan Borofsky, Richard Bosman, Troy Brauntuch, James Brown, Roger Brown, Chris Burden, Johnathan Burke, Scott Burton, Deborah Butterfield, Louia Chase, Sandro Chia, Christo, Francesco Clemente, Tony Cragg, Enzo Cucchi, Agnes Denes, David Deutsch, Martha Diamond, Martin Disler, John Duff, Cynthia Eardley, Jonathan Ellis, Jackie Ferrara, Eric Fischl, Janet Fish, Luis Frangella, Jane Freilicher, Jedd Garet, Gérard Garouste, Gilbert & George, Gregory Gillespie, Nancy Graves, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Jan Groover, Dieter Hacker, Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, Howard Hodgkin, Jenny Holzer, Bryan Hunt, Jörg Immendorff, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen, Steven Keister, Anselm Kiefer, Ken Kiff, Komar and Melamid, Barbara Kruger, Stephen Lack, Lois Lane, Christopher le Brun, Richard Long, Robert Longo, Markus Lüpertz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Michael Mazur, Mario Merz, Melissa Miller, Mary Miss, Malcom Morley, Robert Moskowitz, Elizabeth Murray, Paul Narkiewicz, Nic Nicosia, Jim Nutt, Tom Otterness, Mimmo Paladino, Ed Paschke, A. ... [details]
Anthology of essays "written between 1971 and 1981, covering performance from the Renaissance to the present, with a focus on the 1970s. The essays offer a wide variety of ideas from the points of view of critics and of the artists themselves. ... [details]
"United States" is a book of lyrics and photographs documenting Laurie Anderson's epic musical work, "United States I - IV," which she performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1984. In an interview by John Diliberto and Kimberly Haas in 1985, Anderson said that much of the performance is "highly critical of technology . ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in two parts: "Part I : An Historical Overview," held September 20 - October 5, 1983; "Part II : New Works," held October 12 - October 29, 1983. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, October 15 - December 4, 1983; The Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of California, Las Angeles, January 29 - March 4, 1984; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, April 21 - June 3, 1984; and The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, July 1 - September 9, 1984. ... [details]
Issue nine of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Paul McMahon," by Susan Morgan; "Nancy Chunn," interviewed Susan Davis; "Condensation and Dish-Placement," by The Holy Ghost Writers [ZouZou Lebovici, Lisa Phillips, Bérénice Reynaud, and Lyn Shapiro]; "POPISM," by Paul Taylor; "Paragraphs Toward an Essay Entitled 'Restoration Comedies,'" by Howard Singerman; "Laurie Anderson," by Sarah Taylor States; and "This Indigestible Wedding Cake," by Bérénice Reynaud. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Solidarnos," by Lawrence Weschler; "Bop Art," by Glenn O'Brien; "Forged Image: Centerfold," by Andy Warhol; "Forged Image: Portrait of Andy Warhol," by Christopher Makos; "Issey Miyake: Sewing a Second Skin"; "Juke Joint Jazz," by Marie Cosindas; "Paradise and Lunch: Advertising's Architecture of Heaven," by Bazon Brock; "Altered States: Newspaper Photographs," by Harold Evans; "Vulgar Modernism," by J. ... [details]
Contains Weschler on the graphic of the Polish Solidarity movement, O'Brien on "Bop Art" and the iconography of rock-and-roll, centerfold by Andy Warhol with portrait of Warhol by Makos, and a special clear vinyl flexi-disk insert by Laurie Anderson titled "let X=X. ... [details]
Anthology of writing by American artists edited by Ellen H. Johnson. Includes contributions (interviews and statements, primarily) by Ellen H. Johnson, Jackson Pollock, William Wright, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, David Sylvester, Clement Greenberg, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Cleve Gray, David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Cindy Nemser, Allan Kaprow, Michael Kirby, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Whitman, John Cage, Jasper Johns, G. ... [details]
First EP vinyl pressing of Anderson's anthem-like, iconic, song "O Superman (For Massenet)" backed by track "Walk the Dog." Red and black outer sleeve and black-and-white interior sleeve. Also, "X = X" flexidisk from Artforum Magazine, 1982. [details]
