IN THE CANYON, REVISE THE CANNON: UTOPIAN KNOWLEDGE, RADICAL PEDAGOGY AND ARTIST-RUN COMMUNITY ART SPACES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (English edition)

Editor: Géraldine Gourbe
Publisher: Shelter Press
English
208 pages
19 x 23 cm
Softcover
ISBN 978-2-36582-012-7

Price: 1245 lei (€250)


Texts by Mark Allen, Juliette Bellocq, Vera Brunner-Sung, Nancy Buchanan, Carol Cheh, Matthew Coolidge, Jill Dawsey, François Esquivié, Rita Gonzales, Géraldine Gourbe, Robby Herbst, Walter Hopps, Robert Irwin, Chris Kraus, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Fred Lonidier, Pauline Oliveros, Elana Mann, Emily Mast, Senga Nengudi, Janet Sarbanes, Annette Weisser, Joshua Young, Andrea Zittel.

Before the advent of the social and cultural backlash in the early 1980s initiated and led by the Reagan government, southern California was a privileged territory for the genesis and development of African-American, Chicano, pacifist and Marxist emancipation movements, feminist and homosexual.

From the end of the sixties, these revolutionary waves particularly influenced practices such as performance, video, installation, collaborative art or worked to build alternative networks such as artist-run spaces, non-profit spaces and artist-run community art spaces.

Between Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego, collective public action was built around utopian knowledge spread in turn to universities or art schools favoring the emergence of a radical pedagogy.
These different or even experimental ways of thinking, making, and teaching art, have allowed a deconstruction of certain canons inherited from a European tradition and history of art while working to call into question the American way of life. In the Canyon, Revise the Canon.