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Invisible city : Philadelphia and the vernacular avant-garde / edited by Sheryl Conkelton.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NX511.P35 I54 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Arts.
- Arts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Exhibitions.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Exhibitions.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- Manufacture:
- Minneapolis : Printed by Point B Solutions, 2020.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : University of the Arts, 2020.
- Summary:
- Guidebook to "an exhibit that chronicles advanced culture in the city from 1956 to the Bicentennial celebration in 1976. The vernacular avant-garde directly deals with everyday experiences--with popular music, city planning, commonplace materials, and the strong influence of Duchamp"--p. 11.
- Guidebook to "an exhibit that chronicles advanced culture in the city from 1956 to the Bicentennial celebration in 1976. The vernacular avant-garde directly deals with everyday experiences--with popular music, city planning, commonplace materials, and the strong influence of Duchamp"--Page 11
- Contents:
- Foreword / David Yager
- Philadelphia School painting / Sid Sachs
- Expanding the expanded field / Sid Sachs
- Strange bedfellows : conceptual beginnings in Philadelphia / Rachel Churner
- Manifesto for maintenance art! / Mierle Laderman Ukeles
- LSD : lox, salami, and Danish, or the Avenue of the Arts / Jennie Hirsh
- Chicken
- Allan Kaprow
- Willoughby Sharp : excerpt from an interview with Pamela Sharp
- On craft / Sid Sachs
- Mid-century modern music in Philadelphia / John Szwed
- Radical photographs : Philadelphia in context / Anne Wilkes Tucker
- Progressive architecture
- Complexity and contradiction / Robert Venturi
- Notes on the underground / Sid Sachs
- The saga of '76 / Sid Sachs.
- Notes:
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Invisible city : Philadelphia and the vernacular avant-garde, January 21-April 4, 2020; curated by Sid Sachs/organized by the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at University of the Arts"--Colophon
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the author.
- ISBN:
- 9780962791642
- 0962791644
- OCLC:
- 1225073869
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