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Hippie modernism : the struggle for utopia / edited by Andrew Blauvelt.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, 2015.Description: 448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9781935963097
  • 1935963090
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Contents:
Foreword / Olga Viso -- Preface/ Andrew Blauvelt -- The barricade and the dance floor: aesthetic radicalism and the counterculture / Andrew Blauvelt -- Atmospheres of institutional critique: Haus-Rucker-Co's Pnematic temporality / Esther Choi -- Agency and urgency: the medium and its message / Lorraine Wild and David Karwan -- From east to west and back again: utopianism in Italian radical design / Catherine Rossi -- Buckminster Fuller's Reindeer abattoir and other designs for the real world / Alison J. Clarke -- It's not easy being "free" / Craig J. Peariso -- Counterculture Terroir: California's hippie enterprise zone / Greg Castillo -- Networks and apparatuses, circa 1971: or, Hippies meet cmputers / Felicity D. Scott -- Mandalas or raised fists?: Hippie holism, Panther totality, and another modernism / Simon Sadler -- How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design / Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro -- Radical bodies / Ross K. Elfline -- Section I: Turn on -- Section II: Tune in -- Section III: Drop out -- Advertisements for a counter culture -- Enter the matrix: an interview with Ken Isaacs / Susan Snodgrass -- Toward a stroboscopic history: an interview with Gerd Stern of USCO / Tina Rivers Ryan -- Domes, droppers, and the ultimate painting: an interview with Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit / Adam Gildar -- On covers, connections, and criticality: an interview with Günter Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co / Esther Choi -- Stirring the intermix: an interview with Tony Martin / Liz Glass -- Blueprint for counter education: an interview with Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- Unspeakable signs: an interview with Woodson ("Woody") Rainy and Ron Williams of ONYX / Esther Choi -- "One, two: a hundred, a thousand global tools": an interview with Franco Raggi / Andrew Blauvelt
Summary: This Walker-organized exhibition, assembled with the assistance of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, examines the intersections of art, architecture, and design with the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. A time of great upheaval, this period witnessed a variety of radical experiments that challenged societal and professional expectations, overturned traditional hierarchies, explored new media and materials, and formed alternative communities and new ways of living and working together. During this key moment, many artists, architects, and designers individually and collectively began a search for a new kind of utopia, whether technological, ecological, or political, and with it offered a critique of the existing society. Loosely organized around Timothy Learys famous mantra, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, the exhibition charts the evolution of the period, from pharmacological, technological, and spiritual means to expand consciousness and alter ones perception of reality, to the foment of a publishing revolution that sought to create new networks of like-minded people and raise popular awareness to some of the eras greatest social and political struggles, to new ways of refusing mainstream society in favor of ecological awareness, the democratization of tools and technologies, and a more communal survival. Presenting a broad range of art forms and artifacts of the era, Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia features experimental furniture, alternative living structures, immersive and participatory media environments, alternative publishing and ephemera, and experimental film. Bringing into dramatic relief the limits of Western societys progress, the exhibition explores one of the most vibrant and inventive periods of the not-too-distant past, one that still resonates within culture today.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.046 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 08436

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 24 October 2015- 28 February 2016; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 19 June - 9 October 2016; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 8 February - 21 May 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-440) and index.

Foreword / Olga Viso -- Preface/ Andrew Blauvelt -- The barricade and the dance floor: aesthetic radicalism and the counterculture / Andrew Blauvelt -- Atmospheres of institutional critique: Haus-Rucker-Co's Pnematic temporality / Esther Choi -- Agency and urgency: the medium and its message / Lorraine Wild and David Karwan -- From east to west and back again: utopianism in Italian radical design / Catherine Rossi -- Buckminster Fuller's Reindeer abattoir and other designs for the real world / Alison J. Clarke -- It's not easy being "free" / Craig J. Peariso -- Counterculture Terroir: California's hippie enterprise zone / Greg Castillo -- Networks and apparatuses, circa 1971: or, Hippies meet cmputers / Felicity D. Scott -- Mandalas or raised fists?: Hippie holism, Panther totality, and another modernism / Simon Sadler -- How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design / Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro -- Radical bodies / Ross K. Elfline -- Section I: Turn on -- Section II: Tune in -- Section III: Drop out -- Advertisements for a counter culture -- Enter the matrix: an interview with Ken Isaacs / Susan Snodgrass -- Toward a stroboscopic history: an interview with Gerd Stern of USCO / Tina Rivers Ryan -- Domes, droppers, and the ultimate painting: an interview with Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit / Adam Gildar -- On covers, connections, and criticality: an interview with Günter Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co / Esther Choi -- Stirring the intermix: an interview with Tony Martin / Liz Glass -- Blueprint for counter education: an interview with Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- Unspeakable signs: an interview with Woodson ("Woody") Rainy and Ron Williams of ONYX / Esther Choi -- "One, two: a hundred, a thousand global tools": an interview with Franco Raggi / Andrew Blauvelt

This Walker-organized exhibition, assembled with the assistance of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, examines the intersections of art, architecture, and design with the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. A time of great upheaval, this period witnessed a variety of radical experiments that challenged societal and professional expectations, overturned traditional hierarchies, explored new media and materials, and formed alternative communities and new ways of living and working together. During this key moment, many artists, architects, and designers individually and collectively began a search for a new kind of utopia, whether technological, ecological, or political, and with it offered a critique of the existing society. Loosely organized around Timothy Learys famous mantra, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, the exhibition charts the evolution of the period, from pharmacological, technological, and spiritual means to expand consciousness and alter ones perception of reality, to the foment of a publishing revolution that sought to create new networks of like-minded people and raise popular awareness to some of the eras greatest social and political struggles, to new ways of refusing mainstream society in favor of ecological awareness, the democratization of tools and technologies, and a more communal survival. Presenting a broad range of art forms and artifacts of the era, Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia features experimental furniture, alternative living structures, immersive and participatory media environments, alternative publishing and ephemera, and experimental film. Bringing into dramatic relief the limits of Western societys progress, the exhibition explores one of the most vibrant and inventive periods of the not-too-distant past, one that still resonates within culture today.