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Art Gangs by Alan Moore

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Art Gangs explores the work of artists groups in New York City after 1968. From the Art Workers Coalition through Art & Language, Colab and Group Material in the 1980s, in Soho and the Lower East Side, these collectives built the postmodern art world.

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Art Gangs explores the work of artists groups in New York City after 1968. From the Art Workers Coalition through Art & Language, Colab and Group Material in the 1980s, in Soho and the Lower East Side, these collectives built the postmodern art world. This is the key background story of today s politicized international art world with its constellations of collectives, a scholarly text written in an accessible style. 

Introduction: On and Off the Collective Subject in Contemporary Art
Chapter One: Taking it Out of the Modern: Founding the Art Workers Coalition
Chapter Two: The Action Fraction: Guerrilla Art Action Group
Chapter Three: Soho Spring: The Alternative Space Arrives
Chapter Four: Revising American Art: Art & Language and the Anti-Catalog
Chapter Five: Punk Art: No Wave & Colab
Chapter Six: Political Postmodernism: Of Streets and Museums
Aftermath: The Ball Gets Rolling

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Weight 0.375000 kg