Art After Midnight: The East Village Scene - Softcover

Hager, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312049765 ISBN 13: 9780312049768

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1986

Synopsis

Drawing on personal interviews with many insiders, this history is a trip through the clubs and galleries of New York's East Village art scene

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The outrageous energy of the participants and their subsequent notoriety will carry the reader through this uncritical, discursive pop history of what Hager calls the "Global East Village." He begins with CBGB's and its development as the premier club for punk rock and the nihilistic youth culture of its audience. The author then covers various groupings that were to make Manhattan's East Village and neoexpressionism buzzwords of the '80s: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf and Keith Haring receive extensive coverage, as well as performance artists like Ann Magnuson and "personalities" such as Patti Astor. The book culminates with the explosion of galleries in the East Village and its impact on the New York art marketplace. Hager's treatment is unremarkable but, as always, the East Village provides its own momentum. (July
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0312049765
• ISBN 13: 9780312049768
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 133