Richard Milazzo is a critic, curator, publisher, independent scholar and poet from New York City. In the 1970s, he was the editor and co-publisher of ''Out of London Press''. He is the co-founding publisher and editor of Edgewise Press. In the 1980s, under the rubric of Collins & Milazzo, he co-curated numerous
Collins & Milazzo Exhibitions and co-wrote with
Tricia Collins essays on art and art theory.
Life and work and Edgewise Press
Richard Milazzo is a graduate of
McBurney School and
Franklin and Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) is a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1787 as Franklin College and later merged with Marshall College in 1853, it is one of the oldest colleges in the United St ...
. In the 1970s, he earned an M.A. for his thesis on
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an List of poets from the United States, American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Ita ...
’s ''Cantos'' at
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a Public university, public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York ...
.
He is the editor of Edgewise Press, a small press art publication house founded by Milazzo in 1995. It maintains editorial offices in New York and Paris and is dedicated to publishing small, uniformly packaged, paperback books on art criticism, art theory, aesthetics, philosophy, fiction and poetry.
Since 1982, he has worked internationally as a critic and curator in the art world. In the early 1980s, he co-published and co-edited ''
Effects : Magazine for New Art Theory'' in the
East Village.
[Alison Pearlman, ''Unpackaging Art of the 1980s'', University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 116]
Among the many publications of those years were ''Radical Consumption and the New Poverty'' (New York: New Observations, 1987); ''Art at the End of the Social'' (Malmö, Sweden: The Rooseum, 1988); and ''Hyperframes: A Post-Appropriation Discourse in Art'', the lectures they delivered as Senior Critics at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
in 1988 and 1989. They were reissued in an Italian edition by Campanotto Editore in Udine in 2005. In 2014 Milazzo authored the book ''Peter Nagy: Entertainment Erases History (Works 1982 to 2004 to the Present)'' for Eisbox Projects.
Collins & Milazzo
The idea of neo-conceptual art (sometimes later termed
post-conceptual art
Post-conceptual, postconceptual, post-conceptualism or postconceptualism is an art theory that builds upon the legacy of conceptual art in contemporary art, where the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take some precedence over traditiona ...
) articulated by
Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo in the early 1980s in New York City, brought to prominence a new generation of artists through their copious writings and curatorial activities. It was their exhibitions and writings that originally fashioned the theoretical context for a new kind of neo (or post)
conceptual art; one that argued simultaneously against
Neo-Expressionism
Neo-expressionism is a style of Late modernism, late modernist or early-Postmodern art, postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called ''Transavantgarde'', ''Junge Wilde'' or ''Neue Wild ...
and
The Pictures Generation
''The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984'' was an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York City that ran from April 29 – August 2, 2009. The exhibition took its name from ''Pictures'', a 1977 five person group show organ ...
. It was through this context that the work of many of the artists associated with Neo-Conceptualism (or what some of the critics reductively called Simulationism and
Neo Geo
The , stylized as NEO•GEO, is a video game platform released in 1990 by Japanese game company SNK Corporation. It was initially released in two ROM cartridge-based formats: an arcade system board (Multi Video System; MVS) and a home video gam ...
) was first brought together.
Art at the End of the Social : Rooseum catalogue
See also
* Post-conceptual art
Post-conceptual, postconceptual, post-conceptualism or postconceptualism is an art theory that builds upon the legacy of conceptual art in contemporary art, where the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take some precedence over traditiona ...
* Postmodern art
Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, ...
References
External links
Richard Milazzo websiteThe official website of Edgewise Press
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American art critics
American art historians
Living people
American art curators
American people of Italian descent
Cultural historians
Independent scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)
Small press publishing companies
Publishing companies established in 1995