Flue / Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.

Identifier:REF.SE.1574

Dimensions:v. : ill. ; 22-44 cm

Creation dates:1980

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Mail art, Paper art, Printing, Franklin Furnace (Archive)

Description:First started in 1980 by Franklin Furnace Archive founded by Martha Wilson who continued throughout to be the main editor and manager. Early issues were on folded newspaper and later issues look more like magazines. Issues were quarterly but often at irregular or undated intervals. Issues include calendars of performance events in New York, artist's pages sponsored by galleries, articles about mail art and paper based artworks, as well as interviews and articles with and by artists working in a variety of mediums. "Franklin Furnace was founded in 1976 to serve artists who chose publishing as a primary,"democratic" artistic medium, and were not being supported by existing artistic organizations. From its inception, Franklin Furnace's energies have been focused on three aspects of "time-based" programming: A collection of artists' books; a performance art program for emerging artists; and exhibitions of time-based arts, both site-specific works by contemporary artists, and historical and contemporary exhibitions of artists' books and other time-based, ephemeral arts." - Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. "Franklin Furnace was founded in 1976 by artist Martha Wilson to champion ephemeral forms neglected by mainstream arts institutions. We have developed a place in art history for artists' books, temporary installation art, and performance art, and researched the history of the contemporary artists' book through such exhibitions as Cubist Prints/Cubist Books, The Avant-Garde Book: 1900-1945, Fluxus: A Conceptual Country, as well as thematic shows such as Artists' Books: Japan, Multiples by Latin American Artists, Contemporary Russian Samizdat, and Eastern European Artists' Books. Taken together, the magazines and catalogues published to document these exhibitions form a history that is still not available under one cover." - Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. CBA Holdings Include: December 1980 Vol. 1 No. 4 (2 copies) Vol. 1 No. 5, 1980-1981 Vol. 2 No. 1 Vol. 5 No. 1; Fall 1987