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Digital archive of critical art and politics. Direct inquiries to [email protected].
Visual Art   (46)
Exhibitions   (25)
Labor   (16)
Anarchism   (15)
Strike   (12)
Design   (10)
Photography   (9)
Surrealism   (8)
Fashion   (8)
Soviet   (8)
Music   (8)
Feminism   (7)
Provo   (7)
New Wave   (6)
May 1968   (5)
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Location: United States (55 records)

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. III) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. III)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Mar 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Marvelous Freedom, Vigilance of Desire Thumbnail

Marvelous Freedom, Vigilance of Desire

Chicago Surrealist Group

1976

Exhibition text for the World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago, 1976.

The Match #78 Thumbnail

The Match #78

Fred Woodworth

1983

Surrealism, Subversion, Strange Reviews, Dream World, Work, Boredom & Unemployment.

Cultural Correspondence #12-14 Thumbnail

Cultural Correspondence #12-14

Paul Buhle

1981

Last issue of CC. Comics by Crumb, Rosemonts on surrealism, and more.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. I) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. I)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Jan 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. IV) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. IV)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Apr 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. II) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. II)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Feb 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. VII) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. VII)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Oct 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. II) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. II)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Feb 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. V) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. V)

Armin Lehmann

1966

May 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. VI) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. VI)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Summer 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. IV) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. IV)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Apr 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

General Strike France 1968 Thumbnail

General Strike France 1968

Andrée Hoyles

1970

Factory-by-factory account of strike actions in France, 1968.

Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy, & Function Thumbnail

Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy, & Function

Walker Smith

1917

Black Swan reprint (1967) of Walker Smith's guidebook for worker insubordination.

Cultural Correspondence #10-11 Thumbnail

Cultural Correspondence #10-11

Paul Buhle

1979

Special issue discussing surrealism and popular culture, from Lautréamont to Marx to Bugs Bunny.

Provos & Kabouters Thumbnail

Provos & Kabouters

Rudolf de Jong

1979

Exposition on Provos and Kabouters, Dutch anarchists with carnivalesque tactics.

Surrealism: The Octopus-Typewriter #1 Thumbnail

Surrealism: The Octopus-Typewriter #1

Chicago Surrealist Group

1978

Well, what are you going to do about it? - Jacques Vaché

The Twenty-first International Exhibition of Water Colors Thumbnail

The Twenty-first International Exhibition of Water Colors

Art Institute of Chicago

1942

550 artworks from the Art Institute's 21st watercolor exhibition. 12 works are printed.

Recent Painting USA: The Figure Thumbnail

Recent Painting USA: The Figure

Museum of Modern Art

1962

Early '60s figurative exhibition at MoMA feat. Sabine friend Elinore Schnurr.

Arsenal #4 Thumbnail

Arsenal #4

Chicago Surrealist Group

1989

Final edition of the Rosemonts' Arsenal. Surrealism in service of poetry, revolution, dreams.

Psycho Unity's First Notebook of Head Injury Thumbnail

Psycho Unity's First Notebook of Head Injury

Frank Zirbel

1985

Do you want a career in modeling?

When Truth Was Called A Witch Thumbnail

When Truth Was Called A Witch

Frank Zirbel

1989

Zirbel's ink drawings accompany haunted Reagan quotes.

Artisan #1 Thumbnail

Artisan #1

Lee Calcote

1984

Houston DIY rag exposes the city's underground: independent music, art, and a lively club scene.

Industrial Worker Vol. 67 #4 Thumbnail

Industrial Worker Vol. 67 #4

Industrial Workers of the World

1970

Early '70s copy of the Wobblies' official newspaper. Notes on "free enterprise", suggestions for boycott, and more.

Ex Libris #13 Thumbnail

Ex Libris #13

Elaine Cohen

1985

Art books catalog featuring listings for Lissitzky, Schwitters, Tschichold, and more.

Gabba Gabba Gazette #7 Thumbnail

Gabba Gabba Gazette #7

Mary Ramel

1978

La Mere Vipere punkers review Pink Flag, interview the Boomtown Rats, and gab about Joey Ramone.

Gabba Gabba Gazette #9 Thumbnail

Gabba Gabba Gazette #9

Mary Ramel

1978

Winter-y GGG: Residents special, a fashion feature, and assorted New Wave gossip.

Visions Vol. 5 / We Are Not Alone Thumbnail

Visions Vol. 5 / We Are Not Alone

Rebecca Hoffberger

2000

Catalog for AVAM's 1999 exhibition on aliens, angels, and other outsiders.

Three Days That Shook the New World Order Thumbnail

Three Days That Shook the New World Order

Chicago Surrealist Group

1993

Discussion of the revolutionary (proletarian) potential of LA's '92 riots.

One Big Union Thumbnail

One Big Union

Industrial Workers of the World

1970

Wobblies argue, in this essay, for the necessity of industrial democracy and a unified, international working class.

Clark Street Thumbnail

Clark Street

Tom Palazzolo

2019

Palazzolo photo-documents Clark and surrounding neighborhoods in early '60s Chicago.

At Maxwell Street Thumbnail

At Maxwell Street

Tom Palazzolo

2008

Palazzolo's artful homage to Maxwell Street during its cultural heyday. Vibrant collection of essays and photos.

Scrawls Thumbnail

Scrawls

Frank Zirbel

2003

Zirbel's bike messenger street drawings and accompanying notes, '90-'95.

Psycho Unity Gagged in the Puritan State Thumbnail

Psycho Unity Gagged in the Puritan State

Frank Zirbel

1989

Psycho Unity makes a second appearance. Comics originally serialized in Houston's Public News.

Voices, Insistent Voices Thumbnail

Voices, Insistent Voices

Stuart McCarrell

1990

McCarrell presents 33 vital poems dramatizing modern/ancient life, fit for performance or theater.

The Mass Strike In France, May-June 1968 (Root & Branch Pamphlet #3) Thumbnail

The Mass Strike In France, May-June 1968 (Root & Branch Pamphlet #3)

Informations Correspondance Ouvriere

1970

English translation of ICO's analysis of the mass strikes in France, 1968. Emphasis on French capitalism and its unique student movement.

On The Barricades (Journal for the Protection of All Beings #2) Thumbnail

On The Barricades (Journal for the Protection of All Beings #2)

Journal for the Protection of All Beings

1968

Timely photo essay of '68 revolts, compiled for the American audience. The young make love, the old make obscene gestures.

The Morning of a Machine Gun Thumbnail

The Morning of a Machine Gun

Franklin Rosemont

1968

"In poetry as in life I am for freedom and against slavery."

Solidarity Bookshop (1971) Thumbnail

Solidarity Bookshop (1971)

Solidarity Bookshop

1971

1971 catalogue for Chicago's Solidarity Bookshop. Original publications, anarchist, Surrealist, and Situationist documents for sale.

Leviathan Vol. 2 No. 2 Thumbnail

Leviathan Vol. 2 No. 2

Leviathan

1970

June 1970 edition of San Francisco's Leviathan discusses industry in the Midwest, black labor, and the guerrilla situations in Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #4 Thumbnail

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #4

Richard Olsen

1975

Summer 1975 publication discusses communal art possibilities, imperialism via art world, and proletarian film-making.

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #8 Thumbnail

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #8

Csaba Polony

1983

First issue after a 4-year lapse. Essays and graphics discuss rationalism, culture in Nicaragua, photography, and the role of art in the labor movement.

Point Blank #1 Thumbnail

Point Blank #1

Point Blank

1972

First publication by the the Bay Area's Point Blank. Ruminations on global pseudo-socialisms, the amplification of spectacle by technology, and concrete possibilities for resistance.

Pinelli Assassinato Thumbnail

Pinelli Assassinato

Europe-America Communication Service

1972

EUCS write on the Pinelli assassination. Solidarity Bookshop reprint in collaboration with Chicago's Anarchist Black Cross.

Free Association Thumbnail

Free Association

More to Come

1972

Bay Area anarchists More to Come share their schema for a new society built on direct democracy, affinity organization, and revolutionary councils.

IWW Financial Statement, June 1964 Thumbnail

IWW Financial Statement, June 1964

Industrial Workers of the World

1964

Bookkeeping statement for the IWW, mid-'60s. Cover illustration by Carlos Cortez.

Implications Thumbnail

Implications

Isaac Cronin

1975

Critiques of "Vaneigism", a review of "Anti-Situationist Maneuvers", and recorded correspondence between Bay Area Situs Cronin, Shutes, Knabb.

Idiolects #11 Thumbnail

Idiolects #11

Collective for Living Cinema

1981

Illustration, poetry, and experimental prose from Manhattan's Living Cinema group.

Sabot Vol. 1, Issue #5 Thumbnail

Sabot Vol. 1, Issue #5

Seattle Liberation Front

1970

"This issue of Sabot is created by over one-hundred Seattle women".

Gabba Gabba Gazette #2 Thumbnail

Gabba Gabba Gazette #2

Mary Ramel

1977

2nd GGG issue features Ramel's "controversial Joey interview".

Artpolice (Summer 1986) Thumbnail

Artpolice (Summer 1986)

Frank Gaard

1986

"I am an art student. I have a $600 tuition bill to prove it. Dad worked hard in his corporation to get me here."

Artpolice (Fall 1982) Thumbnail

Artpolice (Fall 1982)

Frank Gaard

1982

"An unconscious (for better or worse) art journal concerned primarily with possibility of art in a world on the brink of extinction."

Gabba Gabba Gazette #4 Thumbnail

Gabba Gabba Gazette #4

Mary Ramel

1977

"The Gabba Gabba Gazzete is even better than drugs. I'll contribute...."

Gabba Gabba Gazette #10 Thumbnail

Gabba Gabba Gazette #10

Mary Ramel

1979

Final GGG (a "Punk Rock Relic") features interviews with Devo and Talking Heads.

Modern Slavery #1 Thumbnail

Modern Slavery #1

Paul Simons

2012

Sakoslky, Simons, Black et. al discuss coercive labor forms, mutual aid, Stirnerism, IWW, Situationists, and more.