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The Art Dockuments : Tales of the Art Dock : the Drive-by Gallery by Carlton Davis; Ed Glendinning; Patricia Bacall; Linda Burnham; Pamela Guerierri is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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There was no glass and no guard separating the art from the audience. The Art Dock was Street Art. The Art Dock was Guerrilla Theater. The Art Dockuments are a portrait of contemporary art and artists that began as a joke idea to exhibit art in a loading dock in downtown Los Angeles old industrial neighborhood, where artists had begun an illegal community amidst the urban decline and the homeless. The Art Dock became the vehicle for a tongue-in-cheek manifesto about art as a commodity, evolved into a community gallery, thrived in the cultural attention given to LA during the 1984 Olympics, and ultimately came to a conclusion as a business attempt with disastrous and comical results. Thirty-three exhibitions from 1981- 1986 took place in the drive-by gallery, where anyone traveling by the loading dock could see the art and the artists working on their installations. Anyone interested in talking about art, the struggle of artists to survive, and the nature of art communities will find the Art Dockuments entertaining and enlightening. The tales tell: the history of the rise and decline of the illegal art community, the battle of artists with building inspectors in legalizing loft livi

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Author

Carlton Davis; Ed Glendinning; Patricia Bacall; Linda Burnham; Pamela Guerierri

Publisher

publisher not identified

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461082101

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.8 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14