Nicholas Bayard; Bleeker Street; Broome Street; Canal Street; Chinatown; Paula Cooper: Crosby Street; Delancy Street; Mike Fanelli; Fire Island; Fourth Street; Timothy J. Gilfoyle; Greene Street; Grenwich Village; Ivan karp; Steven Koch; La Guardia Place; Lower East Side; Houston Street; Mercer Street; Prince Street; Provincetown; Robert Rauschenberg; Harold Rosenberg; Charles R. Simpson; Sono: Passim: Soho( London); Sonic Youth; tenth Street; Paul Tishman Warren Street; Washington Square Village; Walt Whitman; Wooster Street
Richard Kostelanetz is a critic and literary artist. He moved to SoHo just as it was being developed by the underground arts community, and his home-apply named WordShip-has become one of the most famous loft/work space environments of the city. He is the author of over 40 original books as well as 40 edited volumes. He lives in New York City.
"Artist and author Kostelanetz writes with firsthand knowledge of
the place and its people, tracing SoHo from its heyday as an
eclectic center of artistic expression in the 1970s to its
discovery by the mainstream and subsequent transformation into the
pricey world of chic."
-Carol J. Binkowski, "Library Journal
"The chapters that focus on Nam June Paik, Meredith Monk, Richard
Foreman, and other such pivotal figures offer the book's best
insights into the essence of the SoHo phenomenon."
-Carol J. Binkowski, "Library Journal
"There is plenty of detailed description throughout about
everything from startling sculpture and performance art and the
design of offbeat lofts to the complicated mechanics of funding and
the protocol of garbage scavenging."
-Carol J. Binkowski, "Library Journal
"Of particular interest to artists and New York City buffs, this
savvy little history should also be appealing to those intrigued by
the sociology of counterculture and the traditions of avant-garde
art."
-Carol J. Binkowski, "Library Journal
"Books at once this informative and this much fun are rare. Here is
city history--neighborhood history--at its best. What starts off
looking like a "no frills" account, develops authority, presence,
and drive. Read it, and the art of that time, that place will
simply make more sense. It's a book I'm glad I read and am
personally grateful to Kostelanetz for having written.."
-Samuel R. Delany
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