Artists' SoHo : 49 episodes of intimate history / / Richard Kostelanetz ; edited by Susie Ranney Lemmer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822113203321
• Autore: Kostelanetz Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Empire State Editions, , 2015
• ISBN: 0-8232-6284-7; 0-8232-6285-5
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 709.747/109046
• Soggetti: Art, American - New York (State) - New York - 20th century; SoHo (New York, N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century; SoHo (New York, N.Y.) Biography; New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century; New York (N.Y.) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An Alphabetical Guide to Artists' SoHo (In Lieu of a Table of Contents): Artists' colonies in America -- Artists' space -- Barowitz, Elliott -- Bayrak, Tosun -- Castelli, Leo -- Cast-iron architecture -- Conceptual art -- Cooper, Paula -- Dalachinsky, Steve -- Dance (Modern) -- Deitch, Jeffrey -- Dia Art Foundation -- Fanelli's -- Fluxus -- Foreman, Richard -- West Broadway -- Holography -- Interior design -- Karp, Ivan (OK Harris) -- Kitchen, The -- Literature -- Maciunas, George -- Matta-Clark, Gordon -- Mekas, Jonas -- Minimal art -- Monk, Meredith -- Neizvestny, Ernst -- Workshop -- Ordover, Jerald -- Paik, Nam June -- Performance group -- Red Spot (Allen Daugherty) -- Reitman, Jaap -- Rene [Moncada] -- Ross, Charles -- Schechner, Richard -- Sherman, Cindy -- Sonic Youth -- Sonnabend Gallery -- Suicide/Alan Vega -- Tierney, Hanne -- Tsai, Lun-Yi -- Tsai, Wen-Ying -- Vega/Suicide, Alan -- Video art -- Whitney Counterweight -- Wilke, Hannah -- Wilson, Robert.
• Sommario/riassunto: "During the 1960's and 1970's in New York City, young artists exploited an industrial wasteland to create spacious studios where they lived and worked, redefining the Manhattan area just south of Houston ; Street. Its use fueled not by city planning schemes but by word-of-mouth recommendations, the area soon grew to become a world-class center for artistic creation--indeed, the largest urban artists' colony ever in America, let alone the world"--Provided by publisher.