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Hippie modernism : the struggle for utopia / [edited by Andrew Blauvelt] ; with contributions by Andrew Blauvelt [and seventeen others]

Catalog Data

Author:
Blauvelt, Andrew 1964-  Search this
Host institution:
Walker Art Center  Search this
Cranbrook Art Museum  Search this
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive  Search this
Physical description:
448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
History
Date:
2015
20th century
Notes:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 24, 2015- February 28, 2016; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 19-October 9, 2016; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, February 8-May 21, 2017.
Includes work by: Isaac Abrams; Acid Tests; Ant Farm; Archigram (Peter Cook); Archigram (David Greene); Archigram (Ron Herron); Archigram (Michael Webb); Archizoom Associati; Aspen; Steve Baer; Jordan Belson; Boyle Family; Stewart Brand; Ira Cohen; Bruce Conner; Dick Dahlgren; François Dallegret; Sheila Levrant de Bretteville; The Diggers; Documerica; Emory Douglas; Drop City; Öyvind Fahlström; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and Marshall McLuhan; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and R. Buckminster Fuller; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and Jerry Rubin; Free City Collective; Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, and Franco Teodoro; Clay Geerdes; Global Tools; Gorilla Graphics and Kamikaze Design; Gary Grimshaw; Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison; Jack Hatfield; Jack Hatfield and Louis Sozzi; Fayette Hauser; Haus-Rucker-Co; Alfred Henry Heineken and N. John Habraken; Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson; Barbara Isaacs; Ken Isaacs; Sture Johannesson; Lloyd Kahn; Kaleidoscope Graphics; Alton Kelley; Corita Kent; Ugo La Pietra; Bud Lee; Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'Urbino, Jonathan De Pas, and Carla Scolari; Carl Lundgren and Victor Skrebnewski; Carl Lundgren and Jerry Younkins; Bonnie MacLean and Herb Greene; Roberto Mardones; Tony Martin; Katherine McCoy and Michael McCoy; Katherine McCoy and Edward Fella; Victor Moscoso; Stanley Mouse; Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, and Michael Bowen; Ted Nelson; Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; ONYX (Mike Hinge); ONYX (Ron Williams); ONYX (Woodson Rainey); Oz; Victor Papnek; Victor Papnek and George Seegers; Victor Papanek and James Hennessey; Gaetano Pesce; Gregory Pickup; Provo; Radical Software; Elias Romero; Evelyn Roth; Lucas Samaras; Scanlan's Monthly; Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, and Ant Farm; Alan Shields; David Singer; David and Satty Singer; Ettore Sottsass; Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs; Gerd Stern; Superstudio; UFO; USCO; John Van Hamersveld; Videofreex; John Whitney; Whole Earth Catalog; Judith Williams; Allen Willis; Wes Wilson, Wes Wilson and Dean Cail; and Wes Wilson and Jerry Uelsmann.
Contents:
Foreword/Olga Viso -- Acknowledgments/Andrew Blauvelt -- Preface/Andrew Blauvelt -- Essays -- The Barricade and the Dance Floor: Aesthetic Radicalism and the Counterculture/Andrew Blauvelt -- Atmosphere of Institutional Critique: Haus-Rucker-Co's Pnematic Temporality/Esther Choi -- Agency and Urgency:The Medium and Its Message/Lorraine Wild and David Karwan -- From East to West and Back Again: Utopianism in Italian Radical Design/Catherine Rossi -- Buckminster Fuller's Rrindeer Abattoir and Other Designs for the Real World/Alison J. Clarke -- It's Not Easy Being "Free"/Craig J. Peariso -- Counterculture Terroir:California's Hippie Enterprise Zone/Greg Castillo -- Networks and Apparatuses, circa 1971: Or, Hippies Meet Computer/Felicity D. Scott -- Mandalas or Raised Fists? Hippie Holism, Panther Totality, and Another Modernism/Simon Sadler -- How Cybernetics Connects Computing, Counterculture, adn Design/Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro -- Radical Bodies/Ross K. Elfine -- Works -- Section I: Turn On -- Section II: Tune In -- Section III: Drop Out -- Advertisements for a Counter Culture -- Interviews -- Enter the Matrix: An Interview with Ken Isaacs/Susan Snodgrass -- Toward a Stroboscopic History: An Interview with Gerd Stern of USCO/Tina Rivers Ryan -- Domes, Droppers, and The Ultimate Painting: An Interview with Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit/Adam Gildar -- On Covers, Connections, and Criticality: An Interview with Günter Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co/Esther Choi -- Stirring the Intermix: An Interview with Tony Martin/Liz Glass -- Unspeakable Signs: An Interview with Woodson ("Woody") Rainy and Ron Williams of ONYX/Esther Choi -- Blueprint for Counter Education: An Interview with Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs/Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- "One, Two: A Hundred, a Thousand Global Tools": An Interview with Franco Raggi/Andrew Blauvelt -- Etc. -- Exhibition Checklist -- Reproduction Credits -- Catalogue Contributors -- Index
Topic:
Modernism (Art)  Search this
Arts, Modern  Search this
Counterculture--History  Search this
Arts and society--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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