West of Center : Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977 / Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, editors ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.
". 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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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.