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Heresies
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Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics ran independently from 1977 to 1993. Each issue focused on a different topic such as food, theater, or ecology. Between the covers you’ll find photography, film stills, sculptures, paintings, poems, prose, memoirs, collage, and documentations of performance art. Contributors included Harmony Hammond, Ida Applebroog, May Stevens, Mary Beth Edelson, Sally Webster, and Amy Sillman.
Here is the homepage for the 2009 documentary on Heresies called “The Heretics”, directed by Joan Braderman. The site includes an index to the articles.
We have 24 of the 27 issues of Heresies in our back stacks. Come explore them.

Heresies, Vol. 2, No. 3, Issue 7. Spring 1979.
From the article “Portrait of an Office” by Margaret Willey

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 3, Issue 27. 1993.

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 1, Issue 25. 1990.
“Predominant Ideology” by Kristin Reed, 1988. Krylon, xerox, gouache, chalk. 12″x14″.

Heresies, Vol. 1, No. 3, Issue 3. Fall 1977.
Betsy Dam, The 7000 Year Old Woman. Performance #2, a street event, fully clothed. Photo by Su Friedrich.
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Strapazin
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First launched in 1984, Strapazin is a Swiss-based, German language comics magazine focused on the underground and independent scenes. The aesthetic of the work selected is often defined by expressive, gestural drawings filled with motion and energy. Notable Strapazin contributors include SVA’s own Gary Panter and David Sandlin, as well as Daniel Johnston, Le Dernier Cri and Julie Doucet.
The SVA library has 25 issues of Strapazin from June 1994 through the current issue.
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Tags: art, art collective, artist collective, avant garde, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, cartoons, christina gransow, Collage, collective, comic, comics, daniel johnston, daniel jonston, david sandlin, experimental, gary panter, german, graphic art, graphic artist, graphic artists, graphic arts, hans scharer, helge reumann, illustration, illustrations, independent, julie doucet, le dernier cri, luca schenardi, ludmilla barscht, nico krebs, nine antico, photo, photography, school of visual arts, sequential art, sharmila banerjee, skeleton, sva, swiss, switzerland, taiyo onorato, underground, xavier robel, xiang ya ta, yan cong, yokoyama, yuichi yokoyama
Leaves
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Leaves is a 36-image folder depicting the botanical beauty of leaves through photography, advertisements and illustration. The wide range of leaves in this folder make it one of the many in the Visual Arts Picture Collection that can be a helpful aid in drawing reference.
Posted in Leaves, Picture Collection
Tags: botanical, botanicals, botany, Fortune, leaf, leaves, national geographic, photo, photograph, photography, tree