Slant Steps

On the Art World's Semi-Periphery

Jacob Stewart-Halevy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34406-8 (ISBN)

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Slant Steps explores the vital role of the semi-periphery—artistic communities working between the provinces and the metropole. Premised on the collective fascination with the found object Slant Step, the book details a history of encounters among artists, filmmakers, critics, and others operating in and out of the Bay Area during the long 1960s. They revised the terms of the counterculture, the appeal of consumer goods, and the surfaces and materials of industrial design and contemporary sculpture. Whether extending to international exchanges or shrinking to local coteries, these circles helped develop process, funk, and conceptual art as they forged new directions for the art world and its members. Yet when these groups degraded their own works alongside those of their rivals, they made their political and aesthetic commitments difficult to decipher, reorganizing the ties between the visual arts and the New Left. Merging sociologies of art with the tradition of social art history, Jacob Stewart-Halevy uncovers the oblique perspectives and values of the semi-periphery, revealing its enduring impact upon contemporary art, above all in the field of pedagogy.

Jacob Stewart-Halevy is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University.

Introduction
1. Waste Makers
2. Parading the Fetish
3. Funk
4. Lax Behavior
5. Shoddy Meaning
6. Gatekeeping Rituals
Conclusion: Semi-Peripheral Development

Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	38 color images, 33 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	0-520-34406-5 / 0520344065
ISBN-13	978-0-520-34406-8 / 9780520344068
Zustand	Neuware