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Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
by Kate Eichhorn

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Author(s)

Kate Eichhorn

Publisher, year

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2016

Scope

202 p., illustrated, 22 cm.

ISBN

9780262033961

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Kate Eichhorn describes early efforts to use xerography to create art and she examines New York’s downtown art and punk scenes of the 1970s to 1990s, arguing that xerography—including photocopied posters, mail art, and zines—changed what cities looked like and how we experienced them. Xerographic copy machines are now defunct. Office copiers are digital, and activists rely on social media more than photocopied posters. And yet, Eichhorn argues, even though we now live in a post-xerographic era, the grassroots aesthetics and political legacy of xerography persists.

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Location

Cabinet 31 - 6 Art and Engagement

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.