Elissa Auther is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (Minnesota, 2010).Adam Lerner is director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and chief animator in the Department of Fabrications.Lucy R. Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist, and curator. She is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art and has written art criticism for Art in America, The Village Voice, and Z Magazine, among other publications.

"West of Center is an overview of the rich and complicated countercultural moment when different artistic practices shared a belief in and dedication to alternative methods and materials. From Drop City to Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s workshops, from Paolo Soleri to Newton and Helen Harrison’s ecological projects, this volume makes connections across disciplines and describes multi-faceted influences on the art of today." -Chip Lord, Founder and partner with Ant Farm, 1968 - 1978

• ContentsForeword: Memory as ModelLucy R. LippardIntroduction. The Countercultural Experiment: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art Elissa Auther and Adam LernerI. Communal Encounters1. How to Build a Commune: Drop City’s Influence on the Southwestern Commune Movement Erin Elder2. Collective Movement: Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s Joint WorkshopsEva J. Friedberg3. The Farm by the FreewayJana Blankenship4. San Francisco Video Collectives and the Counterculture Deanne PytlinskiII. Handmade Worlds5. Handmade Genders: Queer Costuming in San Francisco circa 1970 Julia Bryan-Wilson6. Libre, Colorado, and the Hand-Built Home Amy Azzarito7. Craft and the Handmade at Paolo Soleri’s Communal Settlements Elissa Auther8. Pond Farm and the Summer Craft Experience Jenni Sorkin9. Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird David E. James10. Paper Walls: Political Posters in an Age of Mass MediaTom WilsonIII. Cultural Politics11. The Print Culture of Yolanda M. LÓpez Karen Mary Davalos12. The Countercultural "Indian": Visualizing Retribalization at the Human Be-In Mark Watson13. Goddess: Feminist Art and Spirituality in the 1970sJennie Klein14. The Revolution Will Be Visualized: Black Panther Artist Emory Douglas Colette Gaiter15. Out of the Closets, Into the Woods: The Post-Stonewall Emergence of Queer Anti-urbanism Scott HerringIV. Altered Consciousness16. Naked Pictures: Ansel Adams and the Esalen Institute Suzanne Hudson17. Techniques of Survival: The Harrisons and the Environmental CountercultureAmanda Boetzkes18. Countercultural Intoxication: An Aesthetics of TransformationMark Harris19. Everywhere Present Yet Nowhere Visible: ChÖgyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dharma Art at the Naropa InstituteBill Scheffel20. Signifying the Ineffable: Rock Poster Art and Psychedelic Counterculture in San Francisco Scott B. MontgomeryAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

Elissa Auther is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (Minnesota, 2010).Adam Lerner is director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and chief animator in the Department of Fabrications.Lucy R. Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist, and curator. She is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art and has written art criticism for Art in America, The Village Voice, and Z Magazine, among other publications.

"West of Center is an overview of the rich and complicated countercultural moment when different artistic practices shared a belief in and dedication to alternative methods and materials. From Drop City to Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s workshops, from Paolo Soleri to Newton and Helen Harrison’s ecological projects, this volume makes connections across disciplines and describes multi-faceted influences on the art of today." -Chip Lord, Founder and partner with Ant Farm, 1968 - 1978

• ContentsForeword: Memory as ModelLucy R. LippardIntroduction. The Countercultural Experiment: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art Elissa Auther and Adam LernerI. Communal Encounters1. How to Build a Commune: Drop City’s Influence on the Southwestern Commune Movement Erin Elder2. Collective Movement: Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s Joint WorkshopsEva J. Friedberg3. The Farm by the FreewayJana Blankenship4. San Francisco Video Collectives and the Counterculture Deanne PytlinskiII. Handmade Worlds5. Handmade Genders: Queer Costuming in San Francisco circa 1970 Julia Bryan-Wilson6. Libre, Colorado, and the Hand-Built Home Amy Azzarito7. Craft and the Handmade at Paolo Soleri’s Communal Settlements Elissa Auther8. Pond Farm and the Summer Craft Experience Jenni Sorkin9. Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird David E. James10. Paper Walls: Political Posters in an Age of Mass MediaTom WilsonIII. Cultural Politics11. The Print Culture of Yolanda M. LÓpez Karen Mary Davalos12. The Countercultural "Indian": Visualizing Retribalization at the Human Be-In Mark Watson13. Goddess: Feminist Art and Spirituality in the 1970sJennie Klein14. The Revolution Will Be Visualized: Black Panther Artist Emory Douglas Colette Gaiter15. Out of the Closets, Into the Woods: The Post-Stonewall Emergence of Queer Anti-urbanism Scott HerringIV. Altered Consciousness16. Naked Pictures: Ansel Adams and the Esalen Institute Suzanne Hudson17. Techniques of Survival: The Harrisons and the Environmental CountercultureAmanda Boetzkes18. Countercultural Intoxication: An Aesthetics of TransformationMark Harris19. Everywhere Present Yet Nowhere Visible: ChÖgyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dharma Art at the Naropa InstituteBill Scheffel20. Signifying the Ineffable: Rock Poster Art and Psychedelic Counterculture in San Francisco Scott B. MontgomeryAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

Elissa Auther is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (Minnesota, 2010).Adam Lerner is director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and chief animator in the Department of Fabrications.Lucy R. Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist, and curator. She is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art and has written art criticism for Art in America, The Village Voice, and Z Magazine, among other publications.

"West of Center is an overview of the rich and complicated countercultural moment when different artistic practices shared a belief in and dedication to alternative methods and materials. From Drop City to Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s workshops, from Paolo Soleri to Newton and Helen Harrison’s ecological projects, this volume makes connections across disciplines and describes multi-faceted influences on the art of today." -Chip Lord, Founder and partner with Ant Farm, 1968 - 1978

• ContentsForeword: Memory as ModelLucy R. LippardIntroduction. The Countercultural Experiment: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art Elissa Auther and Adam LernerI. Communal Encounters1. How to Build a Commune: Drop City’s Influence on the Southwestern Commune Movement Erin Elder2. Collective Movement: Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s Joint WorkshopsEva J. Friedberg3. The Farm by the FreewayJana Blankenship4. San Francisco Video Collectives and the Counterculture Deanne PytlinskiII. Handmade Worlds5. Handmade Genders: Queer Costuming in San Francisco circa 1970 Julia Bryan-Wilson6. Libre, Colorado, and the Hand-Built Home Amy Azzarito7. Craft and the Handmade at Paolo Soleri’s Communal Settlements Elissa Auther8. Pond Farm and the Summer Craft Experience Jenni Sorkin9. Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird David E. James10. Paper Walls: Political Posters in an Age of Mass MediaTom WilsonIII. Cultural Politics11. The Print Culture of Yolanda M. LÓpez Karen Mary Davalos12. The Countercultural "Indian": Visualizing Retribalization at the Human Be-In Mark Watson13. Goddess: Feminist Art and Spirituality in the 1970sJennie Klein14. The Revolution Will Be Visualized: Black Panther Artist Emory Douglas Colette Gaiter15. Out of the Closets, Into the Woods: The Post-Stonewall Emergence of Queer Anti-urbanism Scott HerringIV. Altered Consciousness16. Naked Pictures: Ansel Adams and the Esalen Institute Suzanne Hudson17. Techniques of Survival: The Harrisons and the Environmental CountercultureAmanda Boetzkes18. Countercultural Intoxication: An Aesthetics of TransformationMark Harris19. Everywhere Present Yet Nowhere Visible: ChÖgyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dharma Art at the Naropa InstituteBill Scheffel20. Signifying the Ineffable: Rock Poster Art and Psychedelic Counterculture in San Francisco Scott B. MontgomeryAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex