City Farming: An Exhibition by Douglas W. Kelley

Catalog accompanying Douglas W. Kelley’s exhibition titled City Farming, held at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in January, 1973. 4to, stiff printed wrappers, metal ring binder, 33 pages (unpaginated), replete with b/w illustrations and photos. Douglas Ward Kelley is “a philosophical Speculative Realist Conceptual Artist, as well as an art publisher, historian, curator and critical documentarian… Kelley graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1974 and moved to an artist in residency loft building in Hells Kitchen where he has lived since. Following a Duchampian formula of art making over the past 45 years has strived to defy fixed definitions of what an artist should be. His oeuvre includes painting, performance, photography, video, new media, and internet based projects…His unique and informed opinion on art history and avant-garde theory has influenced multiple generations of the New York art scene. Most recently Kelley is known for the Douglas Kelley Show and the DKS List, an interactive social performance which became the gold standard social calendar of the New York art scene for over a decade. In 2008, he expanded beyond the art world to the web to engage larger audiences about the most critical existential 21st-century issues in order to initiate action on lean, mean and green sustainable solutions to climate chaos, future hyper-technologies, and the swift recalibration of many of the world's broken human support systems such as; economics, agriculture, energy, education, culture, and more.” City Farming represents an early student project, an irreverent spoof of a how-to guide to urban agriculture, and presents now as an artist’s book. Minor soiling and bumping to wrappers with a 3” x 0.75” rectangle of tape residue on the front cover. Clean and bright inside. Scarce.