East Village U.S.A. (Catalogue)

Dan Cameron (Director), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2004. First Edition. Text in English. 160 pages. 30,5 x 23 cm. Condition : Very Good (slight wear to the corners).

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Very beautiful catalog dedicated to the exhibition of the same name which was held between December 2004 and February 2005 in New York : “Twenty years ago, the New York art world was turned upside-down by the audacious energy of a handful of Est Village galleries, mostly run out of modest storefronts by artists who paid a small fraction of the rents of their larger Soho counterparts (…) East Village is now getting its first historical survey from the New Museum, with this expansive overview of work, mostly from 1981 to 1987, by more than seventy-five artists (…) from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring to Jeff Koons and Kiki Smith, the East Village was a springboard for many of the most influential artists of the past two decades…”. An essential work to understand and admire this breaking wave in New York at the end of the 70s.