''Redtape'' was one of the East Village

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published between 1980 and 1992. It featured comics, fiction, poetry, graphic art and photography.

History

''Redtape'' was published between 1980 and 1992. The magazine communicated innovative artistic ideas and divided its pages between literature and graphics. It encouraged the collaboration of writers and visual artists. Michael Carter, the editor and publisher of ''Redtape'', said that the purpose of the magazine was "to explore new possibilities and forms of expression, to develop craft and technique without becoming sequestered in an intellectual or academic ivory tower." It featured comics, fiction, poetry, graphic art, and photography. It also provided a venue for both established and emerging artists and writers of the downtown New York scene.NYU's Fales Library and Special Collections Guide to the Redtape Archive

Publications

*''For the Left Side of Your Brain'' (1982) *''Assemblage'' (1982) *''Redtape: Double Summer Issue'' (1983) *''ArtDamaged'' (1984) *''White Lies'' ( 1984) *''The Cracked Mirror'' (1986) *''Tragicomix'' (1992) Contributors to the magazine included Richard Hambleton,

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David Wojnarowicz David Michael Wojnarowicz ( (September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorp ...

, Constance De Jong, John Farris,

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, Patrick McGrath, Peter Chereches,

James Romberger James Romberger (born 1958) is an American fine artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York City's Lower East Side. Romberger's pastel drawings of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its citizens are in many public ...

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and others.

References

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