West of Center : Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977 /

". In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American West--from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest--broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibil...

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Corporate Authors: Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Other Authors: Auther, Elissa, Lerner, Adam, 1966-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ; [2012]
[Denver, Colo.] : Published in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : Memory as model / Lucy R. Lippard
  • Introduction : The counterculture experiment : consciousness and encounters at the edge of art / Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner
  • Part. I. Communal encounters. How to build a commune : Drop City's influence on the Southwestern Commune Movement / Erin Elder
  • Collective movement : Anna and Lawrence Halprin's joint workshops / Eva J. Friedberg
  • The Farm by the freeway / Jana Blankenship
  • San Francisco video collectives and the counterculture / Deanne Pytlinski
  • Part II. Handmade worlds
  • Handmade genders : queer costuming in San Francisco circa 1970 / Julia Bryan-Wilson
  • Libre, Colorado, and the hand-built home / Amy Azzarito
  • Craft and the handmade at Paolo Soleri's communal settlements / Elissa Auther
  • Pond Farm and the summer craft experience / Jenni Sorkin
  • Expanded cinema in Los Angeles : the single wing turquoise bird / David E. James
  • Paper walls : political posters in an age of mass media / Tom WIlson
  • Part III. Cultural politics. The print culture of Yolanda M. López / Karen Mary Davalos
  • The countercultural 'Indian' : visualizing retribalization at the human be-in / Mark Watson
  • Goddess : feminist art and spirituality in the 1970s / Jennie Klein
  • The revolution will be visualized : Black Panther artist Emory Douglas / Colette Gaiter
  • Out of the closets, into the woods : the post-Stonewall emergence of queer anti-urbanism / Scott Herring
  • Part IV. Altered consciousness. Naked pictures : Ansel Adams and the Esalen Institute / Suzanne Hudson
  • Techniques of survival : the Harrisons and the environmental counterculture / Amanda Boetzkes
  • Countercultural intoxication : an aesthetics of transformation / Mark Harris
  • Everywhere present yet nowhere visible : Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dharma art at the Naropa Institute / Bill Scheffe
  • Signifying the ineffable : rock poster art and psychedelic counterculture in San Francisco / Scott B. Montgomery.