"Catalogue of an exhibition held at Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, Oct. 12-Dec. 8, 2001. Exhibition subsequently held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Nov. 14, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003. Contents: Introduction / Ralph Rugoff -- Art for the Occasion/Art de circonstance / Anne Moeglin-Delcroix -- Extra art: surveying artists' ephemera, 1960-1999 / Steven Leiber & Todd Alden -- Tickets, trips, ..."
"Ted Purves, Forrest Lewinger, Sara Thacher, Anthony Marcellini, Piero
Passacantando, Matthew Rana, Jen Rhoads, Brindalyn Webster, Melissa Wyman
... The program was really pretty rigorous theoretically, and we were blessed with
a great lecture series, where most of the lecturers did not have any direct
connection to glass. Somewhere between my junior and senior year I had been
reading an essay about Duchamp's Roto relieves and the i ..."
"Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production. This revised edition of What We Want Is Free examines a twenty-year history of artistic productions that both model and occupy the various forms of exchange within contemporary society. From shops, gifts, and dinner parties to contract labor and petty theft, contemporary artists have used a vari ..."
What We Want Is Free(2nd Edition) Critical Exchanges in Recent Art by TedPurves, Shane Aslan Selzer Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 2014 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-5313-2, ISBN: 1-4384-5313-2
"Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production. This revised edition of What We Want Is Free examines a twenty-year history of artistic productions that both model and occupy the various forms of exchange within contemporary society. From shops, gifts, and dinner parties to contract labor and petty theft, contemporary artists have used a vari ..."
Revelry and Risk Approaches to Social Practice, or Something Like That by TedPurves, Sara Thacher Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2007 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-4303-2128-6, ISBN: 1-4303-2128-8
""Revelry and Risk" inaugurates the publication program of the Social Practice Area at the California College of the Arts. It features the work of Bridget Barnhart, Anne Devine, Jennifer Durban, Amanda Herman, and Carly Troncale with essays by Ted Purves and Randall Szott. The projects presented in this book span such disparate practices as urban and rural interventions, curation, guerilla architecture, social sculpture, project-based co ..."
What We Want Is Free(Updated) Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture) by TedPurves Hardcover, 196 Pages, Published 2004 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6289-8, ISBN: 0-7914-6289-7
"Through a variety of lenses, this book examines contemporary artists' use of the "gift"--the distribution of goods and services--as a medium for artistic production. Featuring a detailed survey of over fifty artists' projects from fifteen countries, What We Want Is Free explores how these artists use their projects to connect participants to tangible goods and services that they might need, enjoy, and benefit from. Samples of these vari ..."
What We Want Is Free(5th Edition) Generosity And Exchange In Recent Art (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture) by TedPurves Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2004 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6290-4, ISBN: 0-7914-6290-0
"Examines the way recent artists have incorporated concepts of generosity into their work. Through a variety of lenses, this book examines contemporary artists' use of the "gift"the distribution of goods and servicesas a medium for artistic production. Featuring a detailed survey of over fifty artists' projects from fifteen countries, What We Want Is Free explores how these artists use their projects to connect participants to tangible ..."
What We Want Is Free Critical Exchanges in Recent Art (2nd Edition) by TedPurves (2014, E-book) by TedPurves, Shane Aslan Selzer 318 Pages, Published 2014 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-5315-6, ISBN: 1-4384-5315-9
"This is seen in, say, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's Tele-Vecindario: Street-Level Video
(1993), a program of youth training in technical and critical skills and outdoor
media installation, or Christine Hill's 1997 Volksboutique installation-cum-used-
clothing-store. Both projects also provided forums for discussion and social
exchange. Indebted to the 1970s democracy-in-art movements that led to free or
cheap artists' books, mail art, per ..."
The Scribal Society An Essay on Literacy and Schooling in the Information Age [Paperback] Purves, Alan C. and Purves, Ted by Alan C. Purves, TedPurves, Alex C. Purves Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 1990 by Longman Group United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-8013-0378-4, ISBN: 0-8013-0378-8