Out of Paper

Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America

Katie Anania

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Yale University Press
10 January 2025

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Feminism & feminist theory

A dynamic look at how artists used paper to radically redefine the relationship between the body and its surroundings, and to propose new conceptions of ecology

From sketches created inside pants pockets to paper-strewn performances that took cues from protests and riots, the work on paper in the 1960s acted as a mobile, flexible connective tissue between the body and the world around it. In this book, Katie Anania reveals how artists Carolee Schneemann, William Anastasi, Richard Tuttle, Robert Morris, and Charles White harnessed this historically intimate medium during a period in which Americans were becoming urgently concerned with identity, consumer culture, the overreach of state power, and the rapidly deteriorating natural world. Her reexamination of drawing shows how the omnipresence of paper facilitated artists' critiques of dominant systems, from modern throwaway culture to bureaucracy to colonial violence.

Engaging a wide range of actions—such as recycling, recording, cutting, planning, and erasing—Anania offers fresh insights into paper's role not merely as a preparatory medium but one essential to the histories of performance, minimalist, conceptual, and land art. Out of Paper uses materiality studies, social history, and feminist art historical methods to situate paper as a major conduit for thought in the postwar United States.

By: Katie Anania
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9780300272239
ISBN 10: 0300272235
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 10 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katie Anania is assistant professor of art history at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Reviews for Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America

“Anania develops beautiful close readings of paper-based works to show how the materiality of paper was the site of drawing’s most critical interventions into art’s history and broader social discourses in the 1960s and beyond.”—Natilee Harren, author of Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network “Out of Paper offers a lively and absorbing analysis of paper’s myriad connotations in a period of political turmoil, insidious bureaucracy, and dawning awareness of ecological crisis.”—Anna Lovatt, author of Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art