Everything Is Now

The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvJ Hoberman

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Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative press, Everything Is Now chronicles this collective drama as it was played out in coffeehouses, bars, lofts, storefront theaters, and, ultimately, the streets. The principals here include Amiri Baraka, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Carolee Schneemann, Andy Warhol, and many more. Their art, rooted in the detritus and excitement of urban life, was taboo breaking and confrontational. As J. Hoberman shows in this riveting history, these subcultures coalesced into a counterculture that changed the city, the country, and the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-14
Mått129 x 198 x 29 mm
Vikt366 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor464
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804290897

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J. Hoberman was for over three decades a film and culture critic for The Village Voice. His previous books have explored the subculture of midnight movies, the rise and fall of Yiddish-language cinema, the international Communist avantgarde, SoHo performance art, and the underground filmmaker Jack Smith. His "found illusions" trilogy-which includes The Dream Life, Make My Day, and An Army of Phantoms-used Hollywood to refract the history of the Cold War.

Everything Is Now is a completist guide to arguably the most inventive scene of a tumultuous decade. Its densely packed pages offer vivid and timely anecdotal lessons on the impact, suppression and self-obliteration of radical art...The book ends, finally and charmingly, with the story of how Hoberman himself entered the narrative: the dazzled bystander who became a participant in, and then a chronicler of, and now the authoritative historian of a brilliant and disturbed place and time.