Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art

by Gwen Allen

Book Overview

How artists' magazines, in all their ephemerality, materiality, and temporary intensity, challenged mainstream art criticism and the gallery system.

During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized practices of conceptual art. Artists created works expressly for these mass-produced, hand-editioned pages, using the ephemerality and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026252841X
• ISBN13: 9780262528412
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher