Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark : Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s
  • exhibition catalogue
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.6 x 22 cm.
  • 224 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3791351222

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark : Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta Clark, Jane Crawford, RoseLee Goldberg, Alanna Heiss, Philip Ursprung, Lydia Yee

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark : Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s

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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Barbican Art Gallery, London, March 3 – May 22, 2011. Focus is on Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, and Gordon Matta-Clark with additional contributions by Jane Crawford, RoseLee Goldberg, Alanna Heiss, Philip Ursprung, and Lydia Yee. Includes a chronology, selected bibliography, and checklist of the exhibition. "Collaborators and friends, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, and Gordon Matta-Clark were at the cutting edge of Manhattan''s burgeoning downtown art scene during the 1970s. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery in London, which examines the crossover of these artists'' practices and the influence of their work on each other. Focusing on their mutual themes of performance, the body, the urban environment and found spaces, the book is divided into four sections: Downtown New York; Drawing and Performing; Urban Inventions; and Performance and Interaction. The city of New York in the 1970s, faced with bankruptcy, rising crime rates and unemployment, plays its own starring role in the book, as these artists worked in derelict city buildings for their large-scale projects and engaged directly with the public out of doors. This beautiful volume documents an exciting period in the history of contemporary art and reveals the lasting value of open exchange between artists." -- publisher''s statement.

New York / London, NY / CA: Prestel / Barbican Gallery,
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