A History of the Future: Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde (single authored book)

富兰克林熔炉是Martha Wilson于1976年创立的纽约艺术组织。该组织的主要任务是通过帮助新兴艺术家，特别是那些由于机构忽视或政治上不受欢迎的内容而易受攻击的艺术家，来保存、记录和展示前卫艺术的短暂作品。作为当代前卫艺术最重要的演讲者、档案馆和促进者之一，富兰克林·弗恩直接参与了当代艺术的一些关键发展。《未来的历史》记录了这一切，探讨了三十多年来先锋精神所引发的问题。这本书的插图来自布鲁克林富兰克林炉档案馆和纽约现代艺术博物馆的MoMA/富兰克林炉艺术家藏书馆内约15,000张幻灯片和文件。该组织在许多书籍，学术期刊，报纸文章，甚至少数研究生学位论文和学术论文中都有特色。一本关于富兰克林炉的历史的书将作为一个适当的参考，为未来的写作有关的组织和类型的作品，它继续呈现。以下出版物涵盖了富兰克林炉在同一时期的一些活动和其他类似的作品：巴内斯，萨利。《颠覆性的期望：纽约的表演艺术与剧场，1976-85》（密歇根大学出版社，1998年）卡尔，C.《边缘：二十世纪末的表演》（卫斯理大学出版社，1993年）（主编）市中心的书：纽约艺术场景1974-1984（普林斯顿大学出版社，2005年）然而，这三本书只涉及富兰克林炉的历史，充其量。它们也没有提及更近期的作品。富兰克林熔炉十多年来的发展没有在任何书籍长度的出版物中得到充分的介绍。TDR：戏剧评论（第49卷第1期- T185, 2005年春季）有一个关于富兰克林炉的特别章节，部分地解决了这一差距，但显然需要一本关于该组织历史的书。智力图书公司已经评估了这本书的出版建议，并承诺在2010年根据合同出版它。

Franklin Furnace is a New York-based arts organization established by Martha Wilson in 1976. The organization's main mission is to preserve, document, and present ephemeral works of avant-garde art by assisting emerging artists, particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content. As one of the foremost presenters, archives, and facilitators of contemporary avant-garde art, Franklin Furnace has been directly involved in some of the key developments within contemporary art. A History of the Future documents all this by engaging in the issues raised by the spirit of the avant-garde over a period of over three decades.The book is illustrated with unique images drawn from about 15,000 slides and documents housed within the Franklin Furnace Archive in Brooklyn and the MoMA/Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art.The organization has been featured in numerous books, scholarly journals, newspaper articles, and even a small number of post-graduate dissertations and academic papers. A book about the history of Franklin Furnace will serve as an appropriate reference for future writings about the organization and the type of works it continues to present.The following publications cover some of Franklin Furnace's activities and other similar works during the same period:Banes, Sally. Subversive Expectations: Performance Art and Paratheater in New York, 1976-85 (University of Michigan Press, 1998) Carr, C. On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press, 1993) Taylor, Marvin. (ed.) The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984 (Princeton University Press, 2005)However, these three books deal with the history of Franklin Furnace only marginally, at best. They also contain no reference to more recent works. More than a decade's worth of development at Franklin Furnace has not been covered adequately in any book-length publication. TDR: The Drama Review (Vol 49 No 1 - T185, Spring 2005) had a special section on Franklin Furnace, partly addressing this gap, but there is a clear need for a book on the history of the organization.Intellect Books have assessed a proposal for this publication and committed to publishing it under contract in 2010.