“New Modes of Dissent in Art of the 1960s and 1970s: Visual Culture and Strategies of Resistance: from Semina to Heresies”

This essay considers examples of visual practice in America that combined new emphases on artists’ critical writing with innovative processes of production and distribution as countercultural resistance. The starting point is Wallace Berman’s Semina (1955–1964), a sub-cultural series of individually mailed products, in the tradition of small circulation journals or magazines, and the end point is Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977–1992), which aimed to be a broad-based circulation journal produced by a women’s collective of artists, writers and activists advocating feminist socialism.