DIY on the Lower East Side, books, buildings, and art after the 1975 fiscal crisis, Andrew Strombeck
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DIY on the Lower East Side, books, buildings, and art after the 1975 fiscal crisis, Andrew Strombeck
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eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
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DIY on the Lower East Side
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Andrew Strombeck
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books, buildings, and art after the 1975 fiscal crisis
Summary
Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis. The severe financial austerity imposed on New York City during the 1975 fiscal crisis resulted in a city falling apart. Broken windows, crumbling walls, and piles of bricks were everywhere. While, for many, this physical decay was a sign that the postwar welfare state had failed, for others, it represented a site of risky opportunity that could stimulate novel forms of creativity and community. In this book, Andrew Strombeck explores the legacy of this crisis for the city's literature and art, focusing on one neighborhood where changes were acutely felt-the Lower East Side. In what became a paradigmatic example of gentrification, the Lower East Side's population shifted from working-class people to Wall Street traders and ad agents. This transformation occurred, in part, because of high-profile local artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, and Kiki Smith, but Strombeck argues that neighborhood writers also played a role. Drawing on archival research and original author interviews, he examines the innovative work of Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, Miguel Piñero, Sylvère Lotringer, Lynne Tillman, and others and concludes that these writers still have much to teach us about changes in the nature of work and the emergence of a do-it-yourself ethos. DIY on the Lower East Side shows how place and politics shaped literature, and how New York City policies adopted at the time continue to shape our world
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adult
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- Artists + Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Electronic books
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
- Art, American -- 20th century
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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- Artists + Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Electronic books
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
- Art, American -- 20th century
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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- Author1