Everything is now : the 1960s New York avant-garde-primal happenings, underground movies, and radical pop / J. Hoberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoberman, J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Subculture--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Subculture.

Counterculture--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Counterculture.

Popular culture--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

New York (N.Y.)--Civilization--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

viii, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Nineteen-sixties New York avant-garde-- primal happenings, underground movies, and radical pop

1960s New York avant-garde-- primal happenings, underground movies, and radical pop

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Verso, 2025.

Summary:

A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and filmLike Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative press, Everything Is Now chron­icles this collective drama as it was played out in coffeehouses, bars, lofts, storefront theaters, and, ultimately, the streets.The principals here are penniless filmmak­ers, jazz musicians, and performing poets, as well as less classifiable artists. Most were outsiders at the time. They include Amiri Baraka, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Carolee Schneemann, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, and many more. Some were associ­ated with specific movements (Avant Rock, Destruction Art, Fluxus, Free Jazz, Guerrilla Theater, Happenings, Mimeographed Zines, Pop Art, Protest-Folk, Ridiculous Theater, Stand-Up Poetry, Underground Comix, and Underground Movies). But there were also movements of one. Their art, rooted in the detritus and excitement of urban life, was taboo-breaking and confrontational.As J. Hoberman shows in this riveting his­tory, these subcultures coalesced into a counterculture that changed the city, the country, and the world.

Contents:

Part 1. Subcultures, 1959-66

The connections, 1958-60

Primitives of the New Era, 1960-61

The freedom jazz, 1961-1963

The camera shall know no shame, 1962-64

The New York unfair, 1964

All tomorrow's parties, 1964-65

Part 2. Countercultures, 1966-71

Babushkaville explodes, 1966-67

Turf wars : destroying Lower Manhattan, inventing SoHo, claiming the East Village, 1967-68

Everything is now : Kusama vs. Warhol vs. the Fillmore vs. the Living Theater and Motherf***ers, 1968-69

No president, scare city, 1968-69

Withdrawal from Orchid Lagoon, 1970-71.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hoberman, J. Everything is now

ISBN:

9781804290866

1804290866

OCLC:

1498819807