Artists' Magazines

An Alternative Space for Art

Gwen Allen (Associate Professor, San Francisco State University)

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English

MIT Press
21 August 2015

Art & design styles: Conceptual art

Series: Artists' Magazines

How artists' magazines, in all their ephemerality, materiality, and temporary intensity, challenged mainstream art criticism and the gallery system.

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 (1965-1971), a multimedia magazine in a box-issues included Super-8 films, flexi-disc records, critical writings, artists' postage stamps, and collectible chapbooks; Avalanche (1970-1976), which expressed the countercultural character of the emerging SoHo art community through its interviews and artist-designed contributions; and Real Life (1979-1994), published by Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan as a forum for the Pictures generation. These and the other magazines Allen examines expressed their differences from mainstream media in both form and content- they cast their homemade, do-it-yourself quality against the slickness of an Artforum, and they created work that defied the formalist orthodoxy of the day. Artists' Magazines, featuring abundant color illustrations of magazine covers and content, offers an essential guide to a little-explored medium.

By: Gwen Allen (Associate Professor San Francisco State University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1.111kg
ISBN: 9780262528412
ISBN 10: 026252841X
Series: Artists' Magazines
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 21 August 2015
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gwen Allen is Associate Professor of History of Art at San Francisco University. She is the author of Artists' Magazines- An Alternative Space for Art (MIT Press).

Reviews for Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art

...amongst the most thorough discursions into the influence of little magazines upon late-twentieth-century visual culture...it is great to read for its well-researched history and analysis of a period when little magazines were testing the waters of art and publishing. Eye [An] intently researched valentine to vintage small-press heroics. -- Martin Herbert Art Review

Winner of Honorable Mention, 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Art History & Criticism, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers 2011