{"product_id":"the-last-art-college-nova-scotia-college-of-art-and-design-19681978","title":"The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 19681978","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe longawaited history of the art college that became an unlikely epicenter of the art world in the 1960s and 1970s.How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art educationand to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itselfin the 1960s and 1970s? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (aka NSCAD) in the 1970s redefined the means and methods of art education and the shape of art far beyond Halifax.A partial list of visiting artists and faculty members at NSCAD would include Joseph Beuys, Sol LeWitt, Gerhard Richter, Dan Graham, Mel Bochner, Lucy Lippard, John Baldessari, Hans Haacke, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Frank, Jenny Holzer, Robert Morris, Eric Fischl, and Dara Birnbaum. Kasper Koenig and Benjamin Buchloh ran the NSCAD Press, publishing books by Hollis Frampton, Lawrence Weiner, Donald Judd, Daniel Buren, Michael Asher, Martha Rosler, and Michael Snow, among others. The Lithography Workshop produced early works by many of todays masters, including John Baldessari, Vito Acconci, and Claes Oldenburg. With The Last Art College, Garry Kennedy, the colleges visionary president at the time, gives us the longawaited documentary history of NSCAD during a formative era.From gallery openings to dance performances to visiting lectures to exhibitions to classroom projects, the book gives a rich historical and visual account of the schools activities, supplemented by details of specific events, reminiscences by faculty and students, accounts of artists talks, and notes on memorable controversies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Kennedy, Garry Neill \/ hardcover","offer_id":47834383679733,"sku":"DADAX0262016907","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71tpv1QoqaL.jpg?v=1773666520","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-last-art-college-nova-scotia-college-of-art-and-design-19681978","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}