TY - BOOK AU - Grace,Claire TI - Art demonstration: group material and the 1980s T2 - An October books SN - 9780262543521 AV - NX512.G76 G73 2022 U1 - 700.973 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The MIT Press KW - Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.) KW - Arts KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Experimental methods N1 - Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2014, under the title: Group Material and the 1980s : a materialist postmodernism; P.B; P.B; Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-402) and index; America, Americana (1985), and the exhibition interior -- "To change time" : historical intervention in the timeline exhibitions of 1984 and 1989 -- Counterpublics in transit : "dangerous" painting in subculture, 1983 -- Democratic looking N2 - "Benefitting from years of access to participating individuals and their archives, Grace reconstructs and vividly describes the ephemeral projects of an avant-garde collective whose name is well-known, but whose work is barely understood. (Member Felix Gonzalez-Torres once called it "the best kept-secret in the art world.")"-- ER -