Art Worker: Doing Time in the New York Artworld film film or sound

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whose childlike style reveals the powerful emotions and fanciful imaginings of childhood

What types of thinking and writing become possible through its restrictions—no book

“ have lost none of their significance

45 people were invited to take part in a “serious game”: each participant selected the image of a personal object of fascination

Art Worker: Doing Time in the New York Artworld film film or soundWritten in an accessible style, this subaltern memoir casts a raking light on a classic period in cultural history the 70s and 80s in downtown Manhattan. From art critic, to video artist, to radical organizer and then academic, the author played several roles in the seething scene of art galleries, nightclubs, and small publications. Art Worker is in three parts, with characters, anecdotes, footnotes and extensive bibliography. Its a book by a scholar