This book is a dramatized oral history, organized around the enigmatic figure of the late Jack Goldstein and containing skillfully edited interviews that leave little to the imagination. In form, Hertz’s book is what Rosetta Brooks calls in her introduction a “third history”-one apart from “the grand narratives of art history and the often prescriptive histories of art critics” (11). Produced by the editor of Theories of Contemporary Art and Twentieth Century Art Theory: Urbanism, Politics, and Mass Culture (with Norman Klein) as well as the author of the boundary-busting Desiring Machines, 1 the interviews in the volume under review provide surprising and unusual insight into an otherwise closed association of California schoolmates who transplanted themselves to New York City as they endeavored to shift the trajectory of contemporary art. If you are looking for a book to animate the scholarship on the group later known as the Pictures artists of the 1970s and 1980s, Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia by Richard Hertz could prove to be an essential text. Performance Art/Performance Studies/Public Practice.Museum Practice/Museum Studies/Curatorial Studies/Arts Administration.Drawings/Prints/Work on Paper/Artistc Practice.Digital Media/New Media/Web-Based Media.
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