Brus, Muehl, Nitsch, Schwarzkogler

Brus, Muehl, Nitsch, Schwarzkogler

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  • Author: Malcolm Green
  • Publisher: Atlas Press (GB)
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

These four artists from the sixties created a form of performance art which has become legendary for the extreme violence of its expression. Fined, gaoled, forced into exile, they were ignored by the art establishment of the day only to now be hailed as one of Europe's most outstanding contributions to post-war art. This anthology of their writings and documentation, brought together with the collaboration of the artists, Brus, Nitsch and Muehl, illustrates their intentions for the first time and shows how they established and explored a new territory for art.


Viennese Actionism

Viennese Actionism

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  • Author: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, Spain)
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  • ISBN:
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 444

To understand the full extent of this collective gesture of protest against history carried out in a brief space of time by Viennese artists in Vienna, it is essential to forget that they were born out of the horror of national-socialism. As a product of the 1960s, Viennese Actionism and its extremism represent an artistic phenomenon of great contemporary interest, when we find that violence resides everywhere behind the false appearance of universal peace. Arising in a marginal cultural environment, this book looks at Viennese Actionism art as a convulsive, virulent re-encounter between experimental art and destruction.


Valie Export

Valie Export

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  • Author: Roswitha Mueller
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • ISBN: 9780253209252
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 356

ÒThis sumptuously illustrated volume is the first in English devoted to this important Austrian avant-gardist.Ó ÑChoiceÒRoswitha Mueller offers a sorely needed overview of Valie ExportÕs work in this comprehensive study. . . . the sheer breadth of MuellerÕs research constitutes an important contribution to film criticism . . . Ó ÑAustrian Studies NewsletterAn early, groundbreaking performance artist, Valie Export created a philosophy of ÒFeminist ActionismÓ and in multimedia performances used the female body to critique male spectatorship. Here Roswitha Mueller examines ExportÕs performance work, her photography and films, and her critical writings and interviews.


Art of the 20th Century

Art of the 20th Century

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  • Author: Karl Ruhrberg
  • Publisher: Taschen
  • ISBN: 9783822859070
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 850

The original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc.


Performing the Body/Performing the Text

Performing the Body/Performing the Text

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  • Author: Amelia Jones
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134655932
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art.


Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism

Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism

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  • Author: Giulia Champion
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000373843
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This edited collection aims to promote a conversation on the evolution and the different uses of the tropes and figures of cannibalism, in order to understand and deconstruct the fascination with anthropophagy, its continued afterlife and its relation to different disciplines and spaces of discourse. In order to do so, the contributing authors shed a new light not only on the concept, but also propose to explore cannibalism through new optics and theories. Spanning 15 chapters, the collection explores cannibalism across disciplines and fields from Antiquity to contemporary speculative fiction, considering history, anthropology, visual and film studies, philosophy, feminist theories, psychoanalysis and museum practices. This collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking scholarly contributions suggests the importance of cannibalism in understanding human history and social relations.


A Short History of Art in Vienna

A Short History of Art in Vienna

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  • Author: Martina Pippal
  • Publisher: C.H.Beck
  • ISBN: 9783406467899
  • Category : Architecture
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264


Viennese Actionism

Viennese Actionism

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  • ISBN: 9788482667843
  • Category : Abstract expressionism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 439


Critical Mass

Critical Mass

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  • Author: Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN: 9780813533032
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 234

Description: Puts New Jersey at the center of key art movements during the sixties


The Art of Cruelty

The Art of Cruelty

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  • Author: Maggie Nelson
  • Publisher: National Geographic Books
  • ISBN: 0393343146
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.