{"title":"Downtown New York","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublications, exhibition catalogues, artists’ books, and printed matter connected to the downtown New York art scene — principally the East Village, SoHo, and Lower Manhattan from the late 1970s through the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe objects gathered here document a period when art, nightlife, real estate, youth culture, and market formation briefly occupied the same paper field: gallery guides, scene directories, exhibition catalogues, fanzines, artist publications, and social documents from a short-lived but intensely productive cultural economy. Basquiat, Haring, Koons, Sherman, Prince, Scharf, and their adjacencies appear through the printed matter that recorded, promoted, and helped produce their visibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse the collection at The New Rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"east-village-85-a-guide-a-documentary-pelham-press-1985","title":"Roland Hagenberg et al. — East Village ’85: A Guide. A Documentary., New York: Pelham Press, 1985","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoland Hagenberg et al.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEast Village ’85: A Guide. A Documentary.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York: Pelham Press, 1985\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, illustrated wrappers\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 20 × 26.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e160 pp., black-and-white and colour illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good overall for a heavily handled period softcover. Visible rubbing, edge wear, surface creasing, corner wear, age toning, and handling marks to covers and page edges. Interior remains clean and highly usable. The wear is consistent with an object that circulated as guide, document, address book, scene report, and commercial instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Roland Hagenberg, with contributions by Alan Jones, Michael Kohn, Carlo McCormick, Nicolas Moufarrege and others. A dense guide\/documentary of the mid-1980s East Village art scene, combining gallery profiles, essays, maps, portraits, listings, advertisements, and social documentation. Includes references and appearances connected to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Madonna, Kenny Scharf, Walter Robinson, Gracie Mansion, Piezo Electric, Limbo, Civilian Warfare, Artmart, Nolo Contendere, Wolff, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book that converts a neighbourhood into a printed system.\u003cbr\u003eMap, gallery, portrait, advertisement, essay, directory, gossip structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEast Village ’85\u003c\/em\u003e does not sit outside the scene it describes. It participates in it. The book has the form of a yearbook, a sales prospectus, a local index, and a documentary device. Artists, dealers, photographers, critics, performers, and galleries are arranged as entries within a short-lived cultural economy. The East Village appears here not as myth after the fact, but as a working surface: named, mapped, promoted, monetised, and already becoming historical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe commercial language is part of the object. Hagenberg’s project understood the East Village as a place where documentation and promotion could not be separated. The guide records the scene while helping to produce its visibility. In that sense it belongs to the same economy as the gallery card, the downtown flyer, the paid page, the art-world directory, and the social photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs shop\/object, this copy functions as retained evidence from a moment when art, nightlife, real estate, youth culture, and market formation briefly occupied the same paper field. Not a neutral guide. A printed mechanism for placement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. 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Light surface wear, faint toning, minor edge and corner handling consistent with period gallery ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal announcement card issued by Postmasters Gallery for David Diao’s 2000 exhibition, 14 October – 11 November. The verso identifies the reproduced painting as \u003cem\u003eLying 2\u003c\/em\u003e, 2000, acrylic on canvas, 79 × 115 inches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small Postmasters object from Diao’s early-2000s circulation. The painting appears as reproduction, framed by a teal field and converted into gallery notice. On the reverse, image gives way to schedule, address, phone number, web address, and email. The exhibition is reduced to a card-sized administrative surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA secondary line at the bottom records Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s \u003cem\u003ePink Light\u003c\/em\u003e in the “hole in the floor” project space, placing the object inside the wider Postmasters programme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePainting as notice. Gallery as layout. Exhibition as mailed support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. 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Interior clean overall, binding intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of \u003cem\u003eRichard Prince: The Douglas Blair Turnbaugh Collection (1977–1988)\u003c\/em\u003e at Edward Cella Art \u0026amp; Architecture, Los Angeles, 11 June–30 July 2016. The catalogue documents material from the private archive of Douglas Blair Turnbaugh, an early friend, collector, and supporter of Prince. The exhibition gathered artworks, letters, exhibition announcements, publications, postcards, photographs, altered ephemera, and related objects from the artist's formative years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA catalogue of secondary material around an artist whose work depends on secondary material. Prince's practice is built through existing images, jokes, advertisements, printed matter, cultural debris, and shifts of authorship. Here the surrounding paper becomes the subject: the letter, the invitation, the checklist, the matchbook, the jacket, the early publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book records the period in which Prince's work moved through Artists Space, Metro Pictures, the Pictures Generation, SoHo, East Village networks, and early European exhibition circulation. It is not a retrospective of finished works so much as an inventory of formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn artist's career, seen through retained paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. 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