{"title":"Paul Taylor","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Taylor (1957–1992) was an Australian-born critic, curator, and editor whose writing helped define the critical reception of postmodern art and popular culture in the 1980s. Based between Melbourne and New York, he founded the influential journal \u003cem\u003eArt \u0026amp; Text\u003c\/em\u003e in 1981 and contributed to a generation of publications that took seriously the intersection of art, fashion, music, and mass media at a moment when those boundaries were actively dissolving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs editor of \u003cem\u003eImpresario: Malcolm McLaren \u0026amp; The British New Wave\u003c\/em\u003e (New Museum \/ MIT Press, 1988), Taylor produced one of the defining exhibition catalogues of the decade — a document that framed McLaren not simply as a music industry figure but as a producer of images, attitudes, and cultural systems, and that positioned punk and New Wave within the institutional space of contemporary art discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe materials gathered here are printed traces of Taylor’s editorial and curatorial activity: publications and documents that record the moment when street culture, fashion, and postmodern image-making entered the museum as a serious subject.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"malcolm-mclaren-paul-taylor-impresario-new-museum-mit-press-1988","title":"MALCOLM MCLAREN \/ PAUL TAYLOR — Impresario: Malcolm McLaren \u0026 The British New Wave, New Museum \/ MIT Press, 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogue, \u003cem\u003eImpresario: Malcolm McLaren \u0026amp; The British New Wave\u003c\/em\u003e. Paul Taylor (ed.). New Museum of Contemporary Art \/ The MIT Press, New York \/ Cambridge MA, 1988. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the New Museum, New York, 16 September–20 November 1988. Softcover with French flap covers, 27 × 18 cm, 77 pp. Illustrated in black-and-white and colour. ISBN 0-262-70055-2.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTexts and contributions by Paul Taylor, Dan Graham, Jon Savage, and Jane Withers, with preface and acknowledgements by Marcia Tucker and William Olander.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New Museum \/ MIT Press publication from the moment when punk, fashion, music management, art school, and postmodern image culture entered the museum as a serious subject. McLaren is framed here not only as manager of the Sex Pistols or collaborator with Vivienne Westwood, but as a producer of images, attitudes, performances, and cultural systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare register, this is not simply a music book. It is an exhibition object recording the institutional absorption of punk and New Wave into contemporary art discourse. A document of transfer: street culture, fashion, record sleeve, shopfront, performance, and museum catalogue held in one printed form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of print. Scarce in current circulation. Comparable copies appear intermittently online, with stronger examples generally sitting around the £85–95 range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Rubbing and scuffing to blue covers, edge wear, softened corners, light marks and age toning to pages. Complete and structurally sound. Ships flat, protected and tracked where possible; UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Museum of Contemporary Art \/ The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53933763330386,"sku":"MCLAREN-NEWMUSEUM-CAT-1988","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/McLaren_Malcom._Taylor_Paul._Impresario_Malcolm_McLaren_The_British_New_Wave_New_York._1988_cover.jpg?v=1783279922"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/paul-taylor.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}