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No. 17
TRADITION/MODERNITY/POSTMODERNITY, THE COMMODITY AND PARADIGMATIC SHIFTS by Csaba Polony; On the L.A. Rebellion: THE RAINBOW WAR by Michael Hardt, SMOKE & ASH: A LATINO WRITER LOOKS BACK AT THE 1992 L.A. UPRISING by Luis J. Rodriquez, NOIR SOCIOLOGY: CAN ACADEMICS MAP LOS ANGELES? by John Hutnyk, plus poems & visuals; CITY APOCALYPTIC: THE SOUTH BRONX by Matthew Lee; The Young Kipper Arcane by Jack Hirschman; LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND LIBERATION: A Critique of the Term and Concept "People of Color" by Elizam Escobar; AFRICA IN AMERICA by Paul Laraque; THE THIRD WORLD ARTIST IN THE POSTMODERN AGE by E. San Juan, Jr.; RADICAL WOMEN WRITERS OF THE THIRTIES AND THE NEW FEMINIST RESPONSE by Nora Ruth Roberts; Sheet Metal by Carol T. Noble; AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN NICHOLS by Kurt Jacobsen; The Swineherd by George Buddy; plus more DOCUMENTS, ARTWORKS, POEMS, STORIES, NOTES, ETC. such as: Search for Ancestral Spirits; Illustrated History — 1990; CASUAL USER; Macrocosm USA; Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress, etc.
1993, 144 pp.
No. 16
A NEW WORLD ORDER? by Guy Rundle; REAGANISM: CRUSADING FOR NOSTALGIA by John O’Kane; SPECIAL SECTION ON POLITICL PRISONERS: INTERVIEW WITH LEONARD PELTIER by Michelle Vignes, COMMEMORATING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRISON REBELLIONS (Assassination of George Jackson, San Quentin Six, Attica), INTERVIEW OF LUIS TALAMANTEZ (On George Jackson) by Gloria La Riva, GERONIMO, MY BROTHER, WHERE ARE YOU? by Luis Talamantez; CITIZENS OF THE PHANTOM COUNTRY (on the art of Elizam Escobar) by Iván Silén; THE FIRST LIGHT ARCANE by Jack Hirschman; SAVING KUWAIT by John Ross; WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL REPORT ON THE GULF WAR; THREE POETS FOR THE NEW DECADE by Jack Hirschman; DIVERSILOQUIA ON KNOW FISH by P.J. Laska; EDUCATION, CULTURE, CONFLICT: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST AS CONTESTED TERRAIN by Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes; WHISPERING GALLERIES, Patterns of Consciousness and Social Change As Seen by George Eliot and Marge Piercy by Nora R. Wainer; A HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY by Csaba Polony; DOCUMENTS, POEMS, NOTES, ETC.: Norma Jean Croy Update; Ignacio Guevas — 39th Execution; Sands of Exile by Paul Laraque; America & The Girls of Glasnost by Maggie Jaffe; I Am Northamerican by Margot Pepper; The Day My Aunt Married a White Man by Victoria M. Chang; "Options for Living in a Dying Civilization," by David Thomas; Is This Progress? (Graphic) by Dave & Ged; High-Tech Museum of Art Masterpieces; etc.
1992, 112 pp.
No. 15
THE CASE OF PATRICK "HOOTY" CROY & THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIVE AMERICAN LIBERATION, articles by Paul Vanotti, Luis Talamantez, Dannie Martin. A prison visit to Norma Jean Croy - interview with Bia De Ocampo by Kathy Goss; DISPARITIES AND CONNECTIONS: THE EXCLUDED ON POSTMODERNISM: THE STEALING OF NOTHINGNESS by Elizam Escobar; PRESSURE DROP PRESS by Martin Sprouse (with contributions by John Yates, Seth Tobocman, Peter Plate, Lydia Ely, etc.); TRUMAN NELSON’S REVOLUTIONARY MORALITY by Shaun McNiff; A REQUIEM FOR HIROSHIMA: text by Lee Baxandall, music by Leonard Lehrman; LEFT & RIGHT IN THE CULTURE WARS: THE BIG PICTURE by David Levi-Strauss; SUGARDADDY OR SUBTERFUGE? THE NEA AT 25 by Anthony Marcus; GHASSAN ABDULLAH & PALESTINIAN CULTURE OF THE INTIFADA by Jay Murphy, Culture Behind Bars by X-Detainee 2858; FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NELSON PEERY, Introductory Note by Jack Hirschman; ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY & MEDIEVAL SRI LANKAN ART by Geoffrey Cook; FREE FOOD NOW! THE POLITICAL PROGRAM OF FOOD NOT BOMBS by Alex S. Vitale; CRITIQUE, DOCUMENTS, NOTES, ETC.: The Photojournalist and the Orange Card by Bertha Husband (Critique of Ed Kashi’s Photo’s) with response by Ed Kashi; Free Market Designer Chains (Graphic) by Doug Minkler; Letter About Cuba, The State of the World, and Things by Margot Pepper; poem by Efrain Huerta, translated by Jim Normington; The Structure and Functions of Elite Art: Various Underground Movements by Geza Perneczky; Las Vegas - Enter Now by Victoria Jaye; poem by HM; Extended Resume by Richard Olsen; "Building a Paradigm" (review) by Mat Schwarzman & Mark O’Brien.
1991, 112 pp.
No.14
THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY: Democracy, Socialism, Culture in the Era of Gorbachev. Interview with Gyorgy Szomjas, Hungarian filmmaker; "Intellectual Junk Archane"(poem) by Jack Hirschman; (INTRO.)DIALOGO MULTICULTURAL/PROCESO INTERDISIPLINARIO: Documents from Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo; THEORETICAL WORK:ART’S LIBERATION, WEAPON AND LABYRINTH (Part I) by Elizam Escobar; from OVER THE HILL by Sarah Menefee; DAVID & GOLIATH AND CRIME IN AMERICA by Ben Satterfield; JABALIYA IS NOT THE WARSAW GHETTO by Hilton Obenziner; Photo Essay on Northern Ireland - The Protestants by Ed Kashi; DAILY VISIT WITH NICOLAS GUILLEN by Nancy Morejon; REMARKS ON JOHN BERGER’S G by Robert Buckeye; IDEOLOGY, FORM, DESIRE: TOWARD A NEW MARXIST PERSPECTIVE On Hemingway’s "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by E.San Juan, Jr.; Paintings of Jeramy Turner; POST-MODERNISM, DECONSTRUCTION AND THE OWL OF MINERVA by P.J. Laska; MISC. WORKS, NOTICES, ETC.: Dialectical vs. Dogmatic Criticism; "Underground Art" discusses (postmodernism); poetry by Donna L. Sharer, Luis Rodriguez, Leslie Simon, s.carraher, Monchoachi(Nostrom), David Macauley, and Wilham Lengeman III; fiction by Zachary J. Rombakis, and Bob Slaymaker; Graphics: Doug Minkler; Art Strike 1990-93; "Welcome to the World of Hyper-Reality" & more.
1989-90, 112 pp,
No.13
ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF OTTO HAGEL AND HANSEL MIETH as Narrated by Hansel Mieth; JUAN ANTONIO CORRETJER:Poet and Political Thinker by Elizam Escobar; "Transformation and Path" (1955); "Poetry and Revolution" (1967); Two Poems: "State of Time;" "Time Never Ends;" CONVERSATION WITH ETEL ADNAN; A POEM OF THE INTIFADA by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Hilton Obenziner; "Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words;" "A BRIEF VISIT TO THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF THE HOLY LAND" by Hilton Obenzinger; AARON IBN PORI PITTS-PORTRAIT OF A POLITICAL ARTIST by Nubia Kai; "HONG KONG:CITY ON TRIAL" by Peter Engel; TOWARDS A POETICS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION: REFLECTIONS OF A THIRD WORLD CULTURAL ACTIVIST by E.San Juan, Jr.; ART OF LIBERATION AND PRAXIS OF DEATH by Elizam Escobar; MISC. WORKS, NOTICES, ETC.: SHOCKING TIMES: An Interview with Shock Battalion; POETRY FROM IRELAND: Seamus Carraher; "Dope" (poem) by Jack Hirschman; ILLUSTRATED HISTORY (postcards of an on-going yearly chronicle of current events) by Mariona Barkus; SOME NEW WORK:Doug Minkler; CAMOURADE by Paul Laraque, reviewed by Jack Hirschman; "A Bird in Her Hair," short stories by Phillip Bonosky, reviewed by Thomas Larson; On the destruction of villages in Rumania - A Memorandum from Hungary; HOME(A Performance Project) by June Guralnick; A letter to the Editor - Karl Beveridge; and ROBOTS TO FEED EAST BAY JAIL INMATES.
1988-9 , 96 pp.
No.12
INTERVIEW WITH FREDRIC JAMESON by Jay Murphy; PAINTING, PETROLEUM, POLITICS, PROFITS: U.S.-Mexico Cultural Exchange by Shifra M. Goldman; HAVANA BIENNIAL AND ART IN LATIN AMERICA by Elizam Escobar; PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA DOCUMENTARY PROJECT by Frank Espada; "What’s the Difference?" by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge; "The Archane Written with a Blowtorch and Naked Eye," by Jack Hirschman; THE GUILTIES ABROAD: MARK TWAIN AND PALESTINE, by Hilton Obenzinger; ANTI-POP BUT NOT IGGY-POP by R.G.Davis; BIFURCATED MEDITATIONS OUT OF A BLANK DECADE by Csaba Polony; MISC. WORKS, NOTICES, ETC. ("Give Them Shelter - It’s Not for Everyone", by Karla Forsbeck of ADPSR-Nor.Cal.; Haiti Update; Eye Gallery Update by Tom Ferentz; POETRY by Michel Durand, Boadiba, Dewe Gorode, P.J. Laska; H.D.Moe; "Continuum." a film by Dominic Angerame, text by Ronald Sauer; REPORT FROM GERMANY: "The Other America," "My Fatherland is International," "Art and War - 1939-89" by Reinhard Schultz; "There is no Inferior Culture," by Jacques-Stephen Alexis).
1987-8, 96 pp.
No.11
FILM, CULTURE, POLITICS: A View from Hungary; Interview with Gyorgy Szomjas, Introduction by Csaba Polony; "Magic of Disorder," by Akos Szilagyi; HAITI 1986:DANCING ON A VOLCANO (Poetry & Images from Haiti) by The Jacques Roumain Cultural Brigade; RECENT WRITING by Sarah Menefee; LIFE OF THE AUTOMOBILE, An Imagistic Theatre Presentation, adapters notes by R.G.Davis with Maria Gilardin; ART & POLITICS OF ELIZAM ESCOBAR: An Introductory Note by Csaba Polony; "Notes on the Discourse of Art and its Politics," by Elizam Escobar; "Art as an Act of Liberation,"; "The Case of Elizam Escobar, Prisoner of War and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence"; THEATRE-MONTAGE by Bob Feldman; THE EYE GALLERY & PHOTOGRAPHY by Tom Ferenz; MISC. WORKS, NOTICES, ETC.(POETRY by Jack Hirschman, Mila D. Aguilar, P.J. Laska, Fritz Hamilton; ARTWORK by Susan Schwartzenberg, Doug Minkler, Nancy Buchanan, Frank Garvey, "X-Change TV" by Martha Wallner, etc.).
1986-7, 96 pp.
No.10
Ermanno Olmi on the Film, "THE BLUE PLANET"; Interview with FRANCO PIAVOLI by Silvano Agosti; "The Blue Planet: A Review with Reflections on Nature/Art/Politics," by Csaba Polony; "HONEYBEES AGAINST DINOSAURS," by Akinyele Sadiq (on the Grenadian revolution, invasion, aftermath); Review of Allen Ginsberg’s "Collected Works" and new poems by Jack Hirschman; Poems by Sarah Menefee; Selected translations of Roque Dalton’s writing by Sesshu Foster and Dolores Bravo; Fiction by Victor Hawkins and Jeff Goldthorpe; "Getting Physical" by R.G. Davis; MISC.WORKS, NOTICES, ETC.(Update:"The Other America: History, Art, and Culture of the American Labor Movement," by Reinhard Schultz; Graphics of Doug Minkler; POETRY by Todd Jailer, P.J. Laska, Mila D. Aguilar, Fritz Hamilton, Elsen Lubetsky; ARTWORK by Elliot Ross, Susan Schwartzenberg, Csaba Polony; THE CAPTIVE MINDS’GROUP, etc.; plus CRITIQUE, DEBATE, & DIALOGUE: letters by Bob Buckeye, Sesshu Foster, Carole Conde, Karl Beveridge, Ian Burn, & editor’s response.
1985, 96 pages
No.9
SPECIAL FOCUS ON WORKING CLASS CULTURE & AESTHETICS
Essays on the exhibit OTHER AMERICA: HISTORY, ART & CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT by Ian Burn, Bruce Kaiper, Malte Krugmann; CONVERSATION WITH RALPH FASANELLA; "Art and Biology: An Evaluation of the Aesthetics of Peter Fuller," by Csaba Polony; "PROMISES OF THE STORM"(on Lebanese composer Marcel Khalife), and CONVERSATION IN BEIRUT by Hilton Obenzinger; "Beyond Transcendence: The Poetry of Jose Marie Sison, Filipino Revolutionary," by E.San Juan, Jr.; POETRY by Susanna Ruth Berger, Christopher Butters, Jack Hirschman, Todd Jailer, P.J. Laska, Susan Packie, and James Scully.
1984, 88 pp.
No.8
CRITICAL RESPONSE TO RECENT CULTURAL WORK by Csaba Polony; TEN YEARS...WITH NOTES ON TV, PAINTING, FILM, THEATRE by R.G. Davis; DEMOCRATIZATION OF CULTURE IN NICARAGUA by Ernesto Cardenal; MARGARET RANDALL ON PHOTOGRAPHY; ACTU NATIONAL SEMINAR: ART & WORKING CLASS LIFE by Ian Burn; NATIONAL & CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE WORKS OF GHASSAN KANAFANI by Muhammed Siddiq; PALESTINIAN VISUAL ARTS; ANTI-GRUPPO (Sicilian Poets), translated by Jack Hirschman; REMARKS ON THE POLISH NEO-AVANTGARDE OF THE 70s, by Stefan Morawski; "The Other America: Art & Culture of the American Labor Movement," by Bruce Kaiper; fiction by Rocco Lo Bosco; POETRY by Attila Jozsef, Edward Babun, Jack Hirschman, Vincent Ferrini, P.J. Laska, James Scully, & Susan Packie.
1982-3, 96 pp.
No.7
OBSERVATIONS & CONTRADICTIONS by Csaba Polony; PHOTOGRAPHY OF LESTER BALOG by Leslie Balog; LEONEL RUGAMA: THE POET AND NICARAGUAN LIBERATION by Ileana Rodriguez and Marc Zimmerman; ITALY IN CRISES: THE LEFT’S DILEMMA by Bernard Ohanian, with photos by Lou DeMatteis; POEMS: MARY JOAN COLEMAN; POETRY AND POLITICS by P.J. Laska; VIDEO ON THE LEFT: A DISCUSSION by Fern Tiger; (PROVISIONAL) ART & LANGUAGE: AUCKLAND 1976 by Terry Smith; THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE: POSITIVISM, PLURALISM, AND DIALECTICS by Michael Pyatok and Hanno Weber; DOCUMENTS, IMAGES, CORRESPONDENCE, REVIEWS: (Teamster Information Network, David Penberg (poem), Radical Oral History by Bruce Kaiper, Carlos Cumpian (poem), "After 8: An Observation," by Elliot Ross, Correspondence from Quebec by Richard Martel; letters, etc.)
1978, 144 pp.
No.6
MEXICAN MURALISTS AND THE SCHOOL OF PARIS by Rupert Garcia; POEMS: GARY ALLAN KIZER; THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE & ALIENATION by Henry A. Giroux; POSTER WORK: WILFRED OWEN BRIGADE; NOTES ON "POST-MODERNISM": THE POLITICIZATION OF ART by Csaba Polony; DOCUMENTS, NOTES, IMAGES, ETC.:(People’s Bicentennial Quilt, Vincente Huidibro(poem), Graphic Art of Mohamed Omer Bushara, Chuck Oliveros(poem), "Art & a School" by Urbano Fernadez, Gary Lenhart(poem), "Engaged Cultural Information Systems in Belgium," by Steve Davis, Sandor Pinczehelyi(artwork), "Bertolt Brecht’s Berlin," by Francis H. Trouchet, etc.).
Fall 1976 120 pp.
No.5
4 QUESTIONS & RESPONSES: C.Polony and R. Olsen; DINT: MUSEUMS AND SOCIETY by Tim Drescher; POSTERS FROM PORTUGAL; MARGARET RANDALL: TWO POEMS; 3 POEMS by Michael Peterson; 5 PAINTINGS by Richard Olsen; MUSEUMS ARE POISON by Ron White; THE HUMAN OBJECT AND ITS CAPITALIST IMAGE by Bruce Kaiper; FRAGMENTS, NOTES, MISC.:(John Curl, Roger Taus, Alfredo Rostgaard, Jean Touche, Clarita Roja, Ruchell MaGee, Letters to the Editors, etc.).
Fall-Winter 1975-6. 104 pp. (out of print)
No.4
CITYARTS WORKSHOP: PEOPLE’S ART IN NEW YORK CITY by Eva & James Cockcroft; THE MOVEMENT IS EVERYWHERE by Clarita Roja; SEMINAR ON "CULTURAL IMPERIALISM," by Ian Burn; ARTWORK/INTERNATIONAL HOTEL by Elliot Ross; INTERVIEW WITH SINGLE SPARK FILMS (On filming the Farah Strike); FRAGMENTS, NOTES, MISC.: (Ruchell MaGee, Gary Kizer, Michael X, Prairie Fire, Albert D., Reviews, etc.).
Summer 1975, 68 pp.
No.3
CULTURAL WORKERS FRONT OF OUR AMERICA; M.I.R. Posters; TRUTH IS A CONVINCING ANSWER (Conversations with three Vietnamese Women writers) by Margaret Randall; NOTES TOWARD A THEORY OF AESTHETIC CULTURE (Selection) by Willis H. Truitt; THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES (Part II) by E. San Juan Jr.; CONTEMPORARY REVOLUTIONARY POETRY FROM THE PHILIPPINES (Clarita Roja, Amado V. Hernandez, Cita Tagumpay, E.San Juan, Jr.); INVESTIGATIONS (Three Artists: Csaba Polony, Richard Olsen, Elliot Ross; FRAGMENTS, NOTES, & MISC. (posters, cartoons, reviews, letters, etc.).
Winter-Spring 1975 84 pp. (out of print)
No.2
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES (Part I) by E.San Juan, Jr.; CON-TEMPORARY REVOLUTIONARY POETRY FROM THE PHILIPPINES (Filipino Prisoners Collective, Clarita Roja, Gelacia Guillermo, E.San Juan, Jr.); NOTES TOWARD A THEORY OF AESTHETIC CULTURE (Selections) by Willis H. Truitt; PHOTOMONTAGES OF CHRISTER THEMPTANDER; EXHAUSTION OF AN IDEOLOGY: BANKRUPTCY OF "MODERNISM" by Csaba Polony; FRAGMENTS, NOTES, & MISC.(Living Theatre, Sino-Soviet dispute, G.A.A.G., Moscow art exhibit, etc.).
Fall 1974 74 pp, (out of print)
No.1
GUERRILLA ART ACTION GROUP (Letter, Michael X, WBAI Radio Interview); APRAXIA: THE LOCAL SWAMP by Larry Felson; IN-TIME - THROW OVER by Lenny Rubenstein; JOHN HEARTFIELD by Margaret Crawford; CSABA POLONY (Diagram, Personal Statement, Exercise); RICHARD OLSEN (From My Wall, and Beyond); A NEWSLETTER.
Spring 1974 58 pp. (out of print)
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