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

富兰克林火炉是一个总部设在纽约的艺术组织，由玛莎·威尔逊于1976年成立。该组织的主要使命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作品可能容易受到攻击的艺术家，来保存、记录和展示短暂的前卫艺术作品。作为当代前卫艺术最重要的展示者、档案馆和促进者之一，富兰克林炉灶直接参与了当代艺术中的一些关键发展。《未来史》记录了这一切，通过在三十多年的时间里探讨先锋精神提出的问题来记录这一切。该书以独特的图片为插图，这些图片来自布鲁克林的富兰克林炉子档案馆和纽约现代艺术博物馆的现代艺术博物馆/富兰克林炉子艺术家书库中的大约15,000张幻灯片和文档。该组织曾在许多书籍、学术期刊、报纸文章中出现，甚至还出现在少数研究生论文和学术论文中。一本关于富兰克林火炉历史的书将作为未来关于该组织及其继续呈现的作品类型的适当参考。以下出版物涵盖了富兰克林火炉在同一时期的一些活动和其他类似作品：巴尼斯，萨利。《颠覆期望：行为艺术和剧场在纽约，1976-85》(密歇根大学出版社，1998)卡尔，C.《边缘：二十世纪末的表演》(卫斯理大学出版社，1993)泰勒，马文。(编辑)《市中心的书：纽约的艺术场景1974-1984》(普林斯顿大学出版社，2005)然而，这三本书充其量只能略微讲述富兰克林炉子的历史。它们也没有提到更近的作品。富兰克林炉子十多年的发展在任何一本书的长度的出版物中都没有得到充分的报道。TDR：《戏剧评论》(Vol49 No.1-T185,2005年春季)有一个关于富兰克林炉子的专区，部分弥补了这一空白，但显然需要一本关于该组织历史的书。Intelligence Books已经评估了出版这本书的建议，并承诺在2010年按合同出版。

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.