Brus, Muehl, Nitsch, Schwarzkogler
Brus, Muehl, Nitsch, Schwarzkogler

Author: Malcolm Green

Publisher: Atlas Press (GB)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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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

Author: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, Spain)

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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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.

Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury
Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury

Author: Lucy Weir

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-20

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1040118666

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This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present. Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of risk-taking and self-injury in global performance practice. The interdisciplinary methodology draws from art history and sociology to provide a new critical analysis of the relationship between masculinity and self-inflicted injury. Based upon interviews with a range of artists around the world, it offers an innovative understanding of the diverse meanings behind self-injury in performance, and delves into the gendered coding of self-harming bodies. Individual chapters examine the work of Ron Athey, Günter Brus, Wafaa Bilal, Franko B, André Stitt, Pyotr Pavlensky, and Yang Zhichao, offering a new perspective on the forms and functions of self-injury in performance art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, performance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

Valie Export
Valie Export

Author: Roswitha Mueller

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780253209252

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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.

Data Made Flesh
Data Made Flesh

Author: Robert Mitchell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1135216665

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In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. DataMade Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human being.

Beyond Art: A Third Culture
Beyond Art: A Third Culture

Author: Peter Weibel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-05-17

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9783211245620

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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.

Being Gorgeous
Being Gorgeous

Author: Jacki Willson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0857726919

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Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty first century. Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture. By referring to a wide spectrum of examples, including Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Matthew Barney, Dr Sketchy's, Audacity Chutzpah, Burly Q and Carnesky's Ghost Train, Being Gorgeous demonstrates how contemporary female performers embody, critique and thoroughly relish their own representation by inappropriately re-appropriating femininity.

The Art Of Destruction
The Art Of Destruction

Author: Stephen Barber

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2013-03-27

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1908694920

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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.

Avant-garde Performance
Avant-garde Performance

Author: Gunter Berghaus

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1137093587

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How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it impact on the performing arts? How did the avant-garde challenge the artistic establishment and avoid the pull of commercial theatre, gallery and concert-hall circuits? How did performance artists respond to new technological developments? Placing key figures and performances in their historical, social and aesthetic context, Günter Berghaus offers an accessible introduction to post-war avant-garde performance. Written in a clear, engaging style, and supported by text boxes and illustrations throughout, this volume explains the complex ideas behind avant-garde art and evocatively brings to life the work of some of its most influential performance artists. Covering hot topics such as multi-media and body art performances, this text is essential reading for students of theatre studies and performance.

Action!
Action!

Author: Gary Morris

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1843313294

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'Action!' draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the 'Bright Lights Film Journal', and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.