West of Center : Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977Tools Auther, Elissa and Lerner, Adam and Elder, Erin and Friedberg, Eva J. and Blankenship, Jana and Pytlinski, Deanne and Bryan-Wilson, Julia and Azzarito, Amy and Sorkin, Jenni and James, David E. and Wilson, Tom and Davalos, Karen Mary and Watson, Mark and Klein, Jennie and Gaiter, Colette and Herring, Scott and Hudson, Suzanne and Boetzkes, Amanda and Harris, Mark and Scheffe, Bill and Montgomery, Scott B.. West of Center : Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Abstract (English)"In West of Center, Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner bring together a prominent group of scholars to elaborate the historical and artistic significance of these counterculture projects within the broader narrative of postwar American art, which skews heavily toward New York’s avant-garde art scene. This west of center countercultural movement has typically been associated with psychedelic art, but the contributors to this book understand this as only one dimension of the larger, artistically oriented, socially based phenomenon. At the same time, they reveal the disciplinary, geographic, and theoretical biases and assumptions that have led to the dismissal of countercultural practices in the history of art and visual culture, and they detail how this form of cultural and political activity found its place in the West" -- p. [4] of cover.
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