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Soho : the rise and fall of an artists' colony / Richard Kostelanetz.
Fine Arts Library N6535.N5 K67 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kostelanetz, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, American--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
- Art, American.
- Bohemianism.
- Artists.
- Artist colonies.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Artist colonies--New York (State)--New York.
- Artists--New York (State)--New York.
- Bohemianism--New York (State)--New York.
- SoHo (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York unintentionally became -- for a brief period -- a nexus of creative activity. Taking advantage of loft occupancy laws that allowed artists to live where they worked, a band of enterprising people began settling in New York's SoHo in the 1960s, renovating industrial spaces for personal use. Fueled by word-of-mouth, the area soon grew to be a center for artistic creation. And New York's one-of-a-kind urban artists' colony was born. Richard Kostelanetz not only discusses how the artists came and why, he also focuses on some of the most creative, describing both the lives and work of artists Nam June Paik, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Hannah Wilke, Richard Schechner, George Maciunas, and Alan Suicide, among others. The galleries followed the artists, and the artists utilized the places around them, fashioning their homes, their buildings, and even their streets into makeshift exhibition and performance spaces. Such an ideal situation -- totally unplanned -- could not last forever; the author shows how market forces squeezed out this art utopia, trading in on the allure of its unique character, to be replaced by a shadow of itself, "SoMall," with the coming of trendy stores and restaurants. SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony provides a long-overdue analysis of a remarkable neighborhood that transformed the art and culture of the last four decades and the history of New York.
- Contents:
- Artists' Colonies 7
- Artists Space 90
- Barowitz, Elliott 9
- Bayrak, Tosun 100
- Dalachinsky, Steve 199
- Dance 78
- Dia Foundation 97
- Fanelli's 25
- Foreman, Richard 114
- 420 West Broadway 61
- Holography 151
- Kitchen, The 108
- Literature 156
- Lofts 138
- Maciunas, George 45
- Matta-Clark, Gordon 88
- Monk, Meredith 126
- Movies 187
- 112 Workshop 88
- Ordover, Jerald 205
- Paik, Nam June 163
- Performance Group 72
- Red Spot (Allen Daugherty) 104
- Reitman, Jaap 81
- Rene [Moncada] 102
- Ross, Charles 171
- Schechner, Richard 72
- Sherman, Cindy 145
- Sonic Youth 192
- Tierney, Hanne 179
- Tsai, Lun-Yi 181
- Tsai, Wen-Ying 154
- Vega/Suicide, Alan 194
- Video Art 149
- Whitney Counterweight 58
- Wilke, Hannah 135
- Wilson, Robert 130.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415965721
- OCLC:
- 51637698
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