Ken D. Allan introduces two videos related to “City of Degenerate Angels: Wallace Berman, Jazz and Semina in Postwar Los Angeles,” his contribution to the Spring 2011 issue of Art Journal.
Category: From Art Journal
The Poverty of Poetry
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era
By Michael Corris
The Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC) was formed in New York in 1969 in the wake of an incident in a museum. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), mounted an exhibition titled The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. Within the exhibition was a work by the artist Vassilakis Takis.
Something Totally Unpredictable
By Katy Siegel
The Art Journal Award, CAA’s annual prize for the best article published in the magazine, has been awarded to the current issue’s feature on Land art, a group of essays collected and introduced by Kirsten Swenson.
Soul-Beating
By David Reed
I was a student at the New York Studio School during the fall of 1966 and spring of 1967. The school was then located in a loft building on the northeast corner of Broadway and Bleecker Street. Draft deferments during the Vietnam War were not granted to students attending an art school, especially an unaccredited one like the Studio School.
Lee Lozano, Lee Lozano: Notebooks 1967–70
By Lauren O’Neill-Butler
“HISTORY DRAGS.” Of the many shrewd observations and witticisms that Lee Lozano (1930–1999) recorded in her notebooks, this one strikes deepest when considering the revival of interest in her work. Of course, we’ll never know her opinion on the widespread, international attention that has been lavished on her art and life over the last decade.
Winter 1998, Vol. 57, No. 4
Features Vera Frenkel with Dot Tuer and Clive Robertson, The Story Is Always Partial: A Conversation with Vera Frenkel, 2 … More
Fall 1998, Vol. 57, No. 3
Race and Visual Representation Guest edited by James Smalls and Judith Wilson; portfolio selected by Kenseth Armstead James Smalls, Visualizing … More
Summer 1998, Vol. 57, No. 2
From the Editorial Board, 2 Conversation Janet A. Kaplan, The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the … More
Spring 1998, Vol. 57, No. 1
The Reception of Christian Devotional Art Editor’s Statement Pamela M. Jones, The Reception of Christian Devotional Art: The Renaissance to … More
Winter 1999, Vol. 58, No. 4
In This Issue Janet A. Kaplan, 3 Responses Vasif Kortun and Judith Mastai, 4 Benefit Print Maura Reilly, Notes on … More
Fall 1999, Vol. 58, No. 3
In This Issue Janet A. Kaplan, On Translation, 3 Responses Patricia Phillips and Maxine Payne Caulfield, 4 Contemporary Indian Art … More
Summer 1999, Vol. 58, No. 2
In This Issue John Alan Farmer, 3 Responses Russell Ferguson and Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, 4 Features Janet A. Kaplan, Deeper and … More