NY: The New York Element, 1969. 19pp; b&w illus. Unbound newsprint tabloid, 16 x 11-1/2 in. Wear and pinpoint losses along cover spine; light dampstain at base of spine; flattened horizontal crease; toning. About very good.
Single issue of this New Left newspaper covering art, politics, and social change, which began as a publication of the Arts Section of the Peace and Freedom Party. Contents here include excerpts of speeches given, including by Barnett Newman and Hans Haacke, at an April 10 public hearing to decide on a program for the AWC regarding museum reform (Jay Wholly: "The New York Times should not be allowed to print articles on art."); an article by Arthur Hughes about the "Museum, A Project of the Living Artists" collective; a selection of short statements by members of the AWC, including Sol Lewitt, Rosemarie Castoro, Carl Andre, and Lee Lozano; short essays on feminism by three members of the Woman's Liberation Movement; a long Bill Amidon piece on the "ineluctable death of The Democratic Party"; poems by Richard M. Elman, Donald Horowitz, and H. L. Van Brunt; etc. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and drawings. OCLC locates 27 holdings; issues rather scarcer now in the trade.
