Alternative press news
The Art Workers’ Coalition’s (AWC) Documents 1 includes extracts from the underground/alternative press, a rich phenomenon of 1960s counterculture. Women Artists in Revolution (W.A.R.) drew on similar resources and many anti-war art actions, such as the Los Angeles installation Artists’ Tower of Protest (1966) (also known as Peace Tower), relied on reports in the Los Angeles Free Press. Artists like Martha Rosler also saw these publications as a site for their art works, for example her photomontages House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (1967–1972), published in Goodbye to All That! on October 13, 1970, rather than conventional galleries. During the 1970s, these tendencies developed into artists’ groups forming their own radical journals, for example Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, and archival sources and publications, for example PAD/D (Political Art Documentation and Distribution).