Scope and Contents Clive Phillpot coined the term "magazine art" as "art conceived specifically for magazine content, and, therefore, art which is realized only when the magazine itself has been commposed and printed. Alexander Proven Amaxon.com: Allen's book is a great chronicle of the rise and fall of artists' magazines--among them Aspen, 0 to 9, Avalanche, Art-Rite, FILE, and Real Life--that, in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, provided a space for artists to colonize the discourse of the art world, and do so in their own voices. Artists like Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Mel Bochner, and Vito Acconci created magazine art where criticism had once been, emphasizing the materiality of language, denying its ability to communicate. (Graham's "Schema," a site-specific instructional piece published in a variety of magazines in the 60s and 70s, is a paramount example; it consisted of a template to be completed by the editor, in accordance with the magazine's typography, design, and layout, producing a new work in...

Scope and Contents Dust jacket: Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves through postcards. Whether by way of installation, collage, addition to, or alteration of existing postcards, or the production of postcards themselves, many prominent artists employ the medium in some form. Artists' Postcards traces the origin of artists' fascination with postcards from the early 1900s but with a focus on the contemporary, revealing the significant number of artists who have made creative and unusual artworks in postcard form. With 400 images of postcards created by many well-known artists, Artists' Postcards is the first critical guide to the subject. From surrealists to Fluxus and conceptual artists, this book includes an array of historical and contemporary postcards by such artists as George Grosz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vautier, Dieter Roth, Ray Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gavin...

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This is a personal history of international artists' magazines from 1968-1988. For the bibliographic section, there is an ikon for each of the following: multimedia publication, fluxus/concept/neodada, concrete & visual poetry/experimental literature, assembling, mail art/network publication, rubber stamp, xerography/copy & electrographic art, graphism/graphzine, radicalism/neoism, theory/review/history, and by/about computer. Toward the end of this boo,k Perneczky provides a complete listing of Commonpress issues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue covers "Text and Image in the Art of the Twentieth Century," in four sections, 1900-1940, 1940,-1970, and 1970-1990 and contains numerous reprinted essays as well as those written especially for the exhibition. Topics include Concrete and Visual Poetry, Language relating to Fluxus and Dada, and texts on Marcel Broodthaers, A.R. Penck, Neil Jenney, Nancy Dwyer, Tim Rollins and KOS, Ken Lum, and Barbara Kruger among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.