Writing Toward Dawn: Selected Journals 1969-1982

Author: Donna Dennis

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Category:Books
Publication Date:2024-04-19T00:00:01Z
Pages:332
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0917453484
ISBN:13:9780917453489
“In the late 1960s, artist Donna Dennis began keeping a journal that chronicled her daily life and the work of making art. Animated, self-searching, and direct, these journals document her struggle to find her distinctive feminist approach to art; her heady downtown crowd of lovers and friends; her emerging political consciousness; and her growing confidence in her own work, marked by her fevered arrival at the 1982 Venice Biennale. This volume of selected journals traces the early development of a major American artist, from an uncertain painter to a sculptor of complex architectural installations. Beginning with her early false front hotels, Dennis has developed a sculptural vocabulary that renders familiar architectural forms in terms both mythic and deeply personal. These selected journals offer insight into her process, while paying tribute to the collective energies of downtown New York. With her contemporaries–including Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Kenward Elmslie, Gerard Malanga, Rosemary Mayer, and Adrian Piper–Dennis took part ina period of rapid social, economic, and political change. Wrting Toward Dawn illuminates the collaborations, experiments, dancing, and grassroots organizing among a creative avant-garde”–