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Visual Art

Poster for Danceteria. NIGHTCLUBBING Archive by Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong. Fales Library.

For more information on the visual art, film, and media of the period, see below. All works are accessible to NYU students.

Visual Art

  • Ault, Julie, ed. Alternative Art, New York, 1965–1985: A Cultural Politics Book for the Social Text Collective. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
  • Oakley, Lucy, ed. Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965. Grey Gazette 16/1 (Winter 2017).

Film and Video

  • Dika, Vera. The (Moving) Pictures Generation: The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • Hawkins, Joan, ed. Downtown Film and TV Culture, 1975–2001. Intellect, 2015. 

Image credit: Danceteria Poster, Go Nightclubbing collection. Fales Library.

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