Earn Show & Tell: A Chronicle Of Group Material Translated By Julie Ault Kindle

first hand account of the art collective Group Material, Includes archive images, documents and essays, Chronological entries outline the projects, politics and dynamics of this group through time changing rosters and all, Using this as a reference for the Alternative Studio Practice class that I am teaching, In, the artist collective Group Material opened a storefront at Eastth Street on New York's Lower East Side, from which they launched exhibitionsin allthat radically overhauled curatorial thought, setting art alongside artifacts, documentary material and storebought objects, within exhibitions that were oriented around topical social concerns.
Group Material's original membersJulie Ault, Patrick Brennan, Beth Jaker, Mundy McLaughlin, Marybeth Nelson, Tim Rollins and Peter Szypulacame from backgrounds in feminism, Marxist theory, design and popular culture, and curated classic exhibits reflecting this eclecticism, such as It's a Gender Show, AIDS Timeline and The People's Choicea collection of everyday objects wedding photos, dolls, even a cigarettepack collage gathered from people living on their block.
Show amp Tell is the first monograph on Group Material, and charts

the group's activities, with essays by original members, plus original documents, photographs, drawings, correspondence and interviews.
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