Download or read book Otto Muehl written by Otto Mühl and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kunst und Revolte. Archiv Wiener Aktionismus. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien. 13.02.2004 bis 25.04.2004 Aspekte einer Totalrevolution ist der Titel eines Heftes, das Otto Mühl zwischen 1967 und 1971 in mehreren Fassungen im Selbstverlag aufgelegt hat. Literarisch zugespitzt formuliert er hier seine radikale Kritik an grundlegenden Wert- und Moralvorstellungen und entwirft die Utopie einer repressionsfreien Gesellschaft. Ausgehend von diesem Text wie auch von anderen Materialien aus dem Aktionismusarchiv des Museums moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien wirft diese Publikation ein Schlaglicht auf Mühls künstlerische Produktion der zweiten Hälfte der sechziger Jahre. Sie betont insbesondere den interdisziplinären Charakter seines Werks zwischen dem dramatischen Geschehen der Aktionen, deren medialen Vermittlung in Film und Photographie und der nach wie vor aktuellen malerischen Bildsprache die in der Folge bei Mühl wieder an Bedeutung gewinnt.
Download or read book Brus Muehl Nitsch Schwarzkogler written by Malcolm Green and published by Atlas Press (GB). This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Action Art written by John Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1993-05-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive international bibliography is the first to attempt documentation of this diverse field, covering the history of Artist's Performance. It focuses on its early twentieth-century antecedents in such movements as Futurism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, and the Bauhaus as well as its peak period in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with such developments as Gutai, Fluxus, Viennese Actionism, Situationism, and Guerrilla Art Action. Major emphasis is also given to sources on 115 individual performance artists and groups. More than 3700 entries document print and media materials dating from 1914 to 1992. Organized for maximum accessibility, the sources are also extensively cross-referenced and are indexed by artist, subject, title, and author. Three appendices identify reference works, libraries, and archives, and addenda material not found in the book text, and two others list artists by country and by group or collective.
Download or read book Beyond Art A Third Culture written by Peter Weibel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new theory of culture presented with a new method achieved by comparing closely the art and science in 20th century Austria and Hungary. Major achievements that have influenced the world like psychoanalysis, abstract art, quantum physics, Gestalt psychology, formal languages, vision theories, and the game theory etc. originated from these countries, and influence the world still today as a result of exile nurtured in the US. A source book with numerous photographs, images and diagrams, it opens up a nearly infinite horizon of knowledge that helps one to understand what is going on in today’s worlds of art and science.
Download or read book Viennese Actionism written by Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, Spain) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Cultural History of the Avant Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 brings the series of cultural histories of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries up to the present. It discusses revisions and continuations of historical practices since 1975.
Download or read book Hans Hollein and Postmodernism written by Eva Branscome and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book investigates the art and architecture scene in Vienna to ask how this can inform our broader understanding of architectural Postmodernism. The book focuses on the outputs of the Austrian artist and architect, Hans Hollein, and on his appropriation as a Postmodernist figure. In Vienna, the circles of radical art and architecture were not distinct, and Hollein’s claim that ‘Everything is Architecture’ was symptomatic of this intermixing of creative practices. Austria's proximity to the so-called ‘Iron Curtain’ and its post-war history of four-power occupation gave a heightened sense of menace that emerged strongly in Viennese art in the Cold War era. Seen as a collective entity, Hans Hollein’s works across architecture, art, writing, exhibition design and publishing clearly require a more diverse, complex and culturally nuanced account of architectural Postmodernism than that offered by critics at the time. Across the five chapters, Hollein's outputs are viewed not as individual projects, but as symptomatic of Austria's attempts to come to terms with its Nazi past and to establish a post-war identity.
Download or read book ric Alliez written by Éric Alliez and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seinem Notizbuchbeitrag überträgt der Philosoph Éric Alliez Überlegungen seines im Entstehen begriffenen Buchprojekts zur Diagrammatik und deren Implikationen für den Bereich der zeitgenössischen Kunst visuell auf die Gestalt des Textes selbst und reagiert damit auf das Format der deutsch–englischen Publikationsreihe, für die in der Regel Texte in einer Länge von 3000 Wörtern in Auftrag gegeben werden: Der Text besteht aus drei Teilen, wobei in Teil I und Teil III nur einige ins Englische übersetzte (oder original deutsche) Wörter lesbar sind, während der Rest des französischen Ursprungtextes unter einer Durchstreichung durchschimmert, so dass der Gesamtkontext in einem kontinuierlichen Hin und Her zwischen Sprachen sowie Lesbarkeit und Unlesbarkeit vom Leser dechiffriert werden muss. Teil II dagegen ist ins Englische und Deutsche übersetzt und ohne »Verdunklungen« abgedruckt. Dieser Eingriff verkörpert für den Autor die diagrammatische Intervention zwischen dem (Un)Sagbaren und (Un)Sichtbaren und spiegelt wider, was er zum Ende des zweiten Teils zusammenfasst: »Diese zeichenästhesische (signestésique) Politik der Kunst kann, in einem zeitgenössischen Sinn, der eine strikte Alternative zu ihrer ›konzeptuellen‹ Version bildet, als Art after Philosophy bezeichnet werden. In einem ›nach‹ (après), das kein ›gemäߋ (d'après) ist – noch ein analytischer Firnis (apprêt) (à la Kosuth) –, insofern sie ontologisch ›voraus‹ (en avant) ist, zusammen mit der postkonzeptuellen Kritik und Klinik der Philosophie, die sie transportiert.« Der Philosoph Éric Alliez ist Professor am CRMEP, Kingston University, London, und an der Universität von Paris 8.
Download or read book Movement as Meaning written by Daniel Barnett and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference. He then develops a hyper-simplified formula of movement as meaning to discuss, with true equivalence, the process of reference as it occurs in natural language, technical language, poetic language, painting, photography, music, and of course, cinema. Barnett then applies his analytic technique to an original perspective on cine-poetics based on Paul Valery's concept of omnivalence, and to a projection of how this style of analysis, derived from analog cinema, can help us clarify our view of the digital mediasphere and its relation to consciousness. Informed by the philosophy of Quine, Dennett, Merleau-Ponty as well as the later work of Wittgenstein, among others, he uses the film work of Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad, A.K. Dewdney, Nathaniel Dorsky, Ken Jacobs, Owen Land, Saul Levine, Gregory Markopoulos Michael Snow, and the poetry of Basho, John Cage, John Cayley and Paul Valery to illustrate the power of his unique perspective on meaning.
Download or read book Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age written by Malcolm Le Grice and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Le Grice, a pioneer of 'structural film' in the 1970s and whose first video and computer works were exhibited in the late 1960s, provides a collection of his most notable essays. The essays shed light on the work of other artists and film-makers and documents a period, especially the 70s, when artists' film was at the centre of polemical debate about the nature of avant-garde and the future of radical or experimental film. The book contributes to the contemporary debates about film, video, art and new technology.
Download or read book Well Beings written by James Riley and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and thought-provoking cultural history, turning his trenchant eye to the wellness industry that emerged in the 1970s. Concepts such as wellness and self-care may feel like distinctly twenty-first century ideas, but they first gained traction as part of the New Age health movements that began to flourish in the wake of the 1960s. Riley dives into this strange and hypnotic world of panoramic coastal retreats and darkened floatation tanks, blending a page-turning narrative with illuminating explorations of the era's music, film, art and literature. Well Beings delves deep into the mind of the seventies - its popular culture, its radical philosophies, its approach to health and its sense of social crisis. It tells the story of what was sought, what was found and how these explorations helped the 'Me Decade' find itself. In so doing, it questions what good health means today and reveals what the seventies can teach us about the strange art of being well.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art written by Ian Chilvers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and authoritative reference work contains more than 2,000 clear and concise entries on all aspects of modern and contemporary art. Its impressive range of terms includes movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, dealers, schools, and galleries. There are biographical entries for artists worldwide from the beginning of the 20th century through to the beginning of the 21st, from the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto to the French sculptor Jacques Zwobada. With international coverage, indications of public collections and publicly sited works, and in-depth entries for key topics (for example, Cubism and abstract art), this dictionary is a fascinating and thorough guide for anyone with an interest in modern and contemporary culture, amateur or professional. Formerly the Dictionary of 20th Century Art, the text has been completely revised and updated for this major new edition. 300 entries have been added and it now contains entries on photography in modern art. With emphasis on recent art and artists, for example Damien Hirst, it has an exceptionally strong coverage of art from the 1960s, which makes it particularly ideal for contemporary art enthusiasts. Further reading is provided at entry level to assist those wishing to know more about a particular subject. In addition, this edition features recommended web links for many entries, which are accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Modern Art companion website. The perfect companion for the desk, bedside table, or gallery visits, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art is an essential A-Z reference work for art students, artists, and art lovers.
Download or read book MISPERFORMANCE essays in shifting perspectives written by Marin Blaevi? and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MISperformance: essays in shifting perspectives is a collection of essays that address a spectrum of cultural, organizational, technological, ecological, political and daily performances by focusing on the causes and consequences of a misfire, misconception, misrecognition, misnaming, misfitting etc. Aspects and impacts of MISperformance that are susceptible to provoking disturbances, distortions, alternations, abortions, if not disasters within diverse spheres of private and social life, including aesthetic and political practices, are investigated in the light of their potentially both regressive, even tragic outcome, and resistant, even transgressive efficacy, as also the absence or abandonment of any reason in or for performance.
Download or read book Eye on Europe written by Deborah Wye and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing and vibrant study of an innovative and lesser-known facet of contemporart art. Identifies significant strategies exploited by European artists to extend their aesthetic vision within the mediums of prints, books and multiples. Exploring commercial techniques, confrontational approaches and language and the expressionist impulse. Showcases the creativity being channelled into printed art by todays generation.
Download or read book Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art written by Kristine Stiles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential text in the field of contemporary art history, it has now been updated to represent 30 countries and over 100 new artists. The internationalism evident in this revised edition reflects the growing interest in contemporary art throughout the world from the U.S. and Europe to the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia.
Download or read book Desires for Reality written by Benjamin Halligan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with many aspects of European cultural life, film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of the era’s cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. The author mounts a genuinely fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-garde experiments of Godard, Pasolini, Schroeter, and Fassbinder to the “low” cinematic genres of horror, pornography, and the Western reflected the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt—a cinema for the barricades.
Download or read book The Art Of Destruction written by Stephen Barber and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vienna Aktion Group formed the most provocative, insurgent and challenging of all the worldwide art movements of the 1960s. Their sexually-charged and anti-social actions exacted a profound and irreparable upheaval in the way in which art was conceived. Using their own bodies as raw material, the Aktion Group undertook experiments in cruelty that disassembled the human body and its acts into compacted gestures of blood, meat and excreta. The films of the Vienna Aktion Group - made both by the group themselves, and by collaborators such as Kurt Kren - form the essential residue, debris and evidence of their performances. Film forms the sensitized medium - as unique and ferocious in its impact as the corporeal material upon which the Aktion Group worked - that allied itself most intimately to their experiments. For the first time, this book focuses on those films as fully revealing the obsessions, ambitions and outrages of the Aktion Group. The iconoclastic work of the Vienna Aktion Group is now more contemporary than ever before, and THE ART OF DESTRUCTION provides a comprehensive introduction to that work in both film and performance. Fully illustrated and annotated, this is a book of compelling interest to all students of film, art and performance, and for all readers engaged with questioning social and corporate cultures.
