Area Archive
by AREA (Nightclub)
- Used
- Condition
- Contents uniformly in near fine to fine condition.
- Seller
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East Hampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
[New York: n.p., 1983-1987]. Contents uniformly in near fine to fine condition.. Collection of 120 flyers and posters from New York's hottest and most inventive nightclub, Area, during the mid-1980s. Although it was a disco, Area was a purely visual, happenings-based venue, where New York's art, music, design, fashion, and literary worlds collided; Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, or Jean-Michel Basquiat might be brushing up against Michael Forbes, David Byrne, or Georgio Armani, and Stephen Saban would be there to remind them what happened afterwards in his Details magazine column. Unlike other downtown clubs that focused on music or dancing, Area was driven by art and the scene that it engendered, through its theme nights, elaborate installations, and inventive flyers that seemed to embody Warhol's concept of business art. This archive includes Area's famously unconventional invitations, posters, articles, booklets, and other ephemera from the nightclub's short-lived, yet significant, four-year history. Features two cards enclosed in envelopes addressed to Richard Serra. A defining celebration of the creative hedonism of 1980s New York and a remarkable documentation of the "Bright Lights, Big City" years.
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- Bookseller
- Harper's Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17573
- Title
- Area Archive
- Author
- AREA (Nightclub)
- Book Condition
- Used - Contents uniformly in near fine to fine condition.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- [New York: n.p.
- Date Published
- 1983-1987]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Design; Objects;
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About the Seller
Harper's Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2009
East Hampton, New York
About Harper's Books, Inc.
Harper's Books, founded in 1997, is a bookshop and photography gallery located in East Hampton, New York. We are one of the world's leading dealers in photographic literature, with particular emphasis placed on association copies and landmark books presented in exceptional condition. In addition to our book business, we maintain a gallery space where photographs are exhibited in concert with books. Harper's Books is a member of the ABAA, and the only American rare book dealer chosen to exhibit yearly at Paris Photo.
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