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Kirwin, Elizabeth Seton. "It's All True: Imagining New York's East Village Art Scene of the 1980s," Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, January 1999.
This dissertation examines New York’s East Village art scene of the 1980s as a series of multiple imagined communities through its representation in three primary discourses: the popular press, the art magazines, and the memories of the participants. The purpose is twofold: to illuminate the various constructions of the scene and their inter-connectedness and, second, to gain insight into the process of culture, or more specifically how art worlds work. Combining discourse analysis with approached broadly defined as cultural studies, I argue that the different discourses not only shaped the East Village art scene; they constituted it.
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