Reviews for American Coverlets and Their Weavers: Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl Including a Dictionary of More Than 700 Weavers

The average rating for American Coverlets and Their Weavers: Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl Including a Dictionary of More Than 700 Weavers based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-09-24 00:00:00 Layla Moye These smart, incisive, and probing reviews of the NYC 1980s performance scene seem like dispatches from another lifetime. Cynthia Carr proves an ideal guide to this wild terrain, an adventurous critic with a well-honed bullshit detector. "On Edge" brims with colorful accounts of extreme events featuring The Kipper Kids, GG Allin, Ann Magnuson, Diamanda Galas, the Neoists, and many more. Some names are now forgotten while others like Maria Abramovic, John Jesrun, and Karen Finley were just beginning to make their mark. On the flip side, the essays about the culture wars, censorship, and multiculturalism sadly remain as relevant as ever. The frontline "as it happens" view of the gentrification of NYC real estate and the marginalization of the arts scene is also enlightening, demonstrating how the ending of this continuing story was written long ago. Hard to believe writing this consistently vibrant and well-wrought appeared every week in The Village Voice for years. Highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-05 00:00:00 Teresa Gillespie fantastic. conversational. juicy. informative. fascinating. Assigned reading in my experimental performance history class taught by Keith Hennessy. Need I say more...?