{"title":"Circle Books","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780578635286","title":"The New York Tapes: Alan Solomon’s Interviews for Television, 1965–66","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePreviously unpublished interviews with some of America’s leading postwar artists—including Frankenthaler, Johns, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Stella and Warhol—originally conducted for TV in the mid-’60s by famed curator Alan Solomon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis substantial volume publishes for the first time a series of interviews conducted with seminal East Coast artists and their associates, including Kenneth Noland, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcella Brenner, Helen Jacobson, Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Barnett Newman, Leo Castelli, Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick. These were produced in late 1965 and early 1966 for the documentary television series \u003ci\u003eUSA: Artists\u003c\/i\u003e by famed curator Alan Solomon, who was a regular fixture in the New York art world of the time. This was a logical extension of Solomon's recent curatorial involvements, including most importantly his organization of the United States exhibition at the 1964 Venice Biennale.\u003cbr\u003eThe half-hour format of the episodes meant that a vast amount of Solomon’s original interviews, some of which lasted an hour or more, wound up on the cutting-room floor. At some point after the series was completed the original filmed and tape-recorded interviews were lost. A single set of typed transcripts, preserved in the Alan R. Solomon papers at the Archives of American Art, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution (copublisher of this volume), is the sole complete record of the original interviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e gathers these interview transcripts and publishes them as a group for the first time, extensively illustrated with numerous stills from the television programs and related documentation. The transcripts make available material that was not included in the final programs, while also revealing how what was included became subtly manipulated to fit the format of documentary television. An informative introduction by editor Matthew Simms sets the project in context and highlights the differences between the interviews and the films, shedding new light on a germinal moment in postwar American art and how it was presented to the public.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311816388981,"sku":"9780578635286","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780578635286_17f7f895-c2ac-44ae-a46e-3f8a6ffd9a15.jpg?v=1786014862"},{"product_id":"gifts-and-obligations","title":"Gifts and Obligations","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the idea that all of life is gift, and that everyone has gifts to contribute, could transform British society. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBritain is more unequal, more distrustful, and more divided than it was a generation ago. Britain, according to diagnoses from across the political spectrum, is \"broken\". What is less clear is what to do about it  and who is actually placed to help.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAuthors Martyn Snow and Florence Gildea argue that the answer lies not in a new policy but in an older idea: that human communities are held together by the obligation to give, to receive, and to return, and when this obligation atrophies, neither the market nor the state can fill the gap. At the heart of their argument is a claim that cuts against the grain of modern Britain  that all of life is a gift, and that every person, whatever their circumstances, has something to contribute to the common good.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDrawing on anthropology, theology, and the experiences of communities across England, the authors trace how de-industrialisation, austerity, and decades of individualism have quietly eroded a culture of mutual obligation and how  through in-person encounter, small communities, and tackling poverty  it can be rebuilt.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57695165186421,"sku":"9781806950300","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781806950300.jpg?v=1793031615"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/publisher-circle-books.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}