In the canyon, revise the canon : utopian knowledge, radical pedagogy, and artist-run community art space in Southern California / editor, Géraldine Gourbe ; English translation, Anna Leon
208 pages : illustrations (black and white), facsimiles ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
California
United States
Date:
2015
20th century
Notes:
Contains a compilation of articles, essays, and interviews, with some previously published.
With contributions by: Mark Allen, Juliette Bellocq, Vera Brunner-Sung, Nancy Buchanan, Carol Cheh, Matthew Coolidge, Jill Dawsey, Franc̨ois Esquivié, Rita Gonzales, Géraldine Gourbe, Robby Herbst, Walter Hopps, Robert Irwin, Chris Kraus, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Fred Lonidier, Pauline Oliveros, Elana Mann, Emily Mast, Senga Nengudi, Janet Sarbanes, Annette Weisser, Joshua Young, and Andrea Zittel.
AAPG copy 39088019860139 gift of Andrea Rosen Gallery.
Summary:
"Before the onset of the social and cultural backlash that was brought on by the Reagan administration in the early eighties, Southern California was ripe territory for the genesis and development of emancipation movements for and by African Americans, Chicanos, pacifists, Marxists, feminists and gays and lesbians. Starting in the late sixties, these revolutionary waves particularly influenced practices such as performance art, video, installation, and collaboration, which led to the construction of alternatives like artist-run spaces, non-profit spaces and artist-run community art spaces. In Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego, collaborative public action was constructed around utopian knowledge which was then redirected towards universities and art schools that favored the emergence of radical pedagogies. These other manners of experimental thinking, doing and teaching permitted artists to deconstruct certain canons that were inherited from European tradition and art history, and provoked a reexamination of 'The American way of life'"-- Back cover.
