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I MIGHT END UP A RIGHT-WINGER:
WRITING COUNTERPUBLICS FOR THE EIGHTIES
by
Zachary Kaplan
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Zachary Kaplan
Object Description
| Title | I might end up a right-winger: writing counterpublics for the eighties |
| Author | Kaplan, Zachary N. |
| Author email | znkaplan@usc.edu;znkaplan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Public Art Studies |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-04-10 |
| Date submitted | 2012-04-10 |
| Date approved | 2012-04-10 |
| Restricted until | 2012-04-10 |
| Date published | 2012-04-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Anastas, Rhea |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wedell, Noura Brenson, Michael |
| Abstract | This thesis reframes the history of the politicized artworld of the 1980s by centering on the writing of artists and critics and the way this writing produced oppositional publics. As traditional image-making seemed compromised by theoretical problematizations of representation and the peaking of Ronald Reagan’s overwhelming publicity strategies in the elections years of 1980 and 1984, criticism and publication projects took on new relevance. This thesis addresses four efforts emblematic in their distinctive positionalities. The preeminent journal October attempts to integrate politicized theory and activism into its art historical discourse; the short-lived and theoretically-minded periodical wedge aims to produce evasive subcultural subjects; the collective Political Art Documentation/Distribution bolsters its agitprop efforts through a heterogeneous periodical surprisingly honest and reflexive about successes and failures; and from a problematic vantage, Hilton Kramer’s New Criterion, a Republican Party-funded art magazine, tries to produce a conservative cultural public. Portraying experiments in political viability in an uneven and unsettled field, this thesis maps a definitive chapter in the history of criticism. |
| Keyword | art criticism; 1980s; wedge; New Criterion; Hilton Kramer; Political Art Documentation Distribution; Lucy Lippard; October; Benjamin Buchloh; art writing; Kathy Acker; Reaganism; New York artworld; This Will Have Been; Clement Greenberg; Craig Owens |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Kaplan, Zachary N. |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume3/etd-KaplanZach-588.pdf |
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| Full text | I MIGHT END UP A RIGHT-WINGER: WRITING COUNTERPUBLICS FOR THE EIGHTIES by Zachary Kaplan A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES May 2012 Copyright 2012 Zachary Kaplan |
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