Art-Rite. Issue No. 11-12. Winter/Spring 1975/76
New York: Art-Rite Publishing Company, 1975. Quarto, publisher's stapled illustrated newsprint wraps.
Double issue number 11/12 of American art critic and downtown tastemaker Edit DeAk’s newsprint arts magazine. The idea for the magazine began in an art criticism class taught by Art in America editor Brian O'Doherty at Barnard College, where DeAk and future fellow editors Walter Robinson and Joshua Cohn were enrolled. Growing out of a project the three artists worked on for the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, Art-Rite was established in 1973. Over its five-year run, the magazine published hundreds of interviews, reviews, artists statements, and projects by emerging and established artists associated with the Soho scene, becoming known for its themed issues (video, painting, performance, artists’s books, etc.), and for its artist-designed covers. This issue features a series of editorial features by the editors (on clothes, social realism, gender politics in the art world, etc.), several photo-collages, a piece on Henry C. Pearson by Lucy Lippard, a lengthy photo essay on the buildings in New York that house various art galleries, publishers and publications, performance spaces, bookshops, non-profits, and other art world institutions, and more, with a cover designed by Ed Ruscha. Illustrated with black-and-white photos and reproductions. Embrowning to newsprint, light edgewear to wraps. Very good. Item #12649
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