Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art by Allen, Gwen

UsedGood. Binding is tight, text block is sturdy and clean, boards straight, no highlights or underlining. Dust wrapper shows some minor chipping/rubbing to edges. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.

Cambridge, MA: MIT PRESS, 2011. First . Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. ARTISTS' MAGAZINES; AN ALTERNATIVE SPACE FOR ART by Gwen Allen. From OCTOBER to Aspen to AVALANCHE to ART-RITE to FILE to REAL LIFE to APPEARANCES to HERESIES to THE FOX to Just Another Asshole and many more. 368 pages, many reproductions. Hardover with dust jacket in Broderts. Near Fine condition

MIT Press, 2011. Hard cover. Very good/Good. Jacket is lightly rubbed and worn along edges. Cover is lightly worn along edges. Spine is shaken, but binding is tight. Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 2011. hardcover. fine. Magazine publishing is an exercise in ephemerality and transience; each issue goes out in the world only to be rendered obsolete by the next. To publish a magazine is to enter into a heightened relationship with the present moment. 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 the materiality of the magazine to challenge the conventions of both artistic medium and gallery. In Artists' Magazines, Gwen Allen looks at the most important of these magazines in their heyday (the 1960s to the 1980s) and compiles a comprehensive, illustrated directory of hundreds of others., , Among the magazines Allen examines are Aspen (19651971), a multimedia magazine in a boxissues included Super-8 films, flexi-disc… Read More