The Magazine
The Magazine by Gwen Allen, published by Whitechapel Gallery in 2016, is a 237-page anthology that is part of the ‘Documents of Contemporary Art’ series. This book explores the collaborative nature of artist magazines, examining their evolving relationships within the art world and their critical engagement with commercial media. It contextualizes the artist’s magazine as a form that has both created and transformed cultural production, exchange, and distribution since the early 1960s.
Readers will find a comprehensive survey of significant magazines, alongside a diverse archive of key editorial statements spanning from the eighteenth century to contemporary global cities. The anthology includes case studies of influential artists and writers, highlighting their contributions to the field. Topics such as art, criticism, and theory are woven throughout, offering insights into the alternative and DIY cultures that artist magazines have fostered. This edition serves as a reference for those interested in the intersection of art and media.
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Part of the acclaimed ‘Documents of Contemporary Art’ series of anthologies . Intrinsically collaborative, the magazine is an inherently _open_ form, generating constantly evolving relationships. This anthology contextualizes the artist_s magazine, surveying the art worlds it has by turns created and superseded; the commercial media forms it has critically appropriated, intervened in or subverted; the alternative, DIY cultures it has brought into being; and the expanded fields of cultural production, exchange and distribution it continues to engender. Surveying case studies of transformational magazines from the early 1960s onwards, this book also includes a wide-ranging archive of key editorial statements, from eighteenth-century Weimar to twenty-first century Bangkok, Cape Town and Delhi. Artists surveyed include: Can Altay, Ei Arakawa, Julieta Aranda, Tania Bruguera, Maurizio Cattelan, Eduardo Costa, Dexter Sinister, Rimma Gerlovina, Valeriy Gerlovin, Robert Heinecken, John Holmstrom, John Knight, Silvia Kolbowski, Lee Lozano, Josephine Meckseper, Clemente Padin, Raymond Pettibon, Adrian Piper, Seth Price, Raqs Media Collective, Riot Grrrl, Martha Rosler, Sanaa Seif, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Scott Treleaven, Triple Canopy and Anton Vidokle. Writers include: Saul Anton, Stuart Brand, Jack Burnham, Johanna Burton, Thomas Crow, Edit DeAk, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jürgen Habermas, Martina Köppel-Yang, Antje Krause-Wahl, Lucy Lippard, Caolan Madden, Valentina Parisi, Howardena Pindell, Georg Schöllhammer, Nancy Spector, Sally Stein, Reiko Tomii, Jud Yalkut and Vivian Ziherl.
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