Hair 0 to 9 and the New York Avant-Garde

Publishing by Numbers
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-96747-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 225 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

Edited and self-published by Bernadette Mayer and Vito Acconci from 1967 to 1969,  not only documented some of the most compelling examples of intermedia performance, contemporary poetry, and post-formalist art of the period, but also pioneered new ways of conceiving (and using) the magazine as medium and instrument.  examines how the magazine both responded to and helped shape key developments in New York’s often fractious avant-garde communities. The book pays particular attention to the ways in which Mayer and Acconci foregrounded the material and generic qualities of the magazine and conceived their periodical as a means of generating (as well as documenting) art and poetry.

 considers the ways in which  interacted with other artistic movements and theoretical concerns of the period—including cybernetics, Pop Art, structuralism, and information theory. Arguing for the enduring importance of the magazine, and its unique position in the history of New York’s experimental art and literary scenes, this study contends that  was both a swan song of 1960s idealism and a precursor for the directions that avant-garde art would take in the decades that followed the magazine’s demise.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hair, Ross

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 01: Introduction: No New York.- Chapter 02: From Sheet to Street: The Systems of 0 to 9.- Chapter 03: Vito Acconci: Poetry Under Cover.- Chapter 04: Copy That: Deciphering Hannah Weiner’s Code.- Chapter 05: A Parting of the Ways.

Über Autor(innen)

Ross Hair isEmeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia, UK, and the author of  (2010),  (2016), (2019), and, with Thomas Ruys Smith, the co-editor of (2016).