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Amor, Psyche, Action - Vienna : the feminine in Viennese actionism, Collection Hummel Vienna
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"Viennese Actionism fought for individual freedom and its movement contributed to greater interpersonal and sexual tolerance. To this day the cultural shock caused by their rebellion against baroqu...
"Viennese Actionism fought for individual freedom and its movement contributed to greater interpersonal and sexual tolerance. To this day the cultural shock caused by their rebellion against baroque Catholicism and the sacred family can still be felt. The work of the four main protagonists of Viennese Actionism - Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Günter Brus - would not have been possible without its preceding and contemporary influences. Surrounded by a repressed political past, both men and women were seeking to explore the experience of the highs and lows of 'being human' against the hypocrisy towards sentiments and drang"--Http://www.dox.cz.
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- Creator
- [catalog concept: Julius Hummel ; editing: Julius Hummel, Silvia Jaklitsch, Barbara Toifl, Karin Friesenbichler ; foreword: Leoš Válka, Julius Hummel ; texts: Reinhard Priessnitz, Pilar Parcerisas, August Ruhs, Michaela Pöschl, Almuth Spiegler, Andrea Schurian, Karl Iro Goldblat]
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- Books
- Languages
- English, German
- Contributors
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- Hummel, Julius, editor
- Jaklitsch, Silvia, editor
- Toifl, Barbara, editor
- Friesenbichler, Karin, editor
- Priessnitz, Reinhard, 1945- author
- Parcerisas, Pilar, 1957- author
- Ruhs, August, 1946- author
- Pöschl, Michaela, author
- Spiegler, Almuth, author
- Schurian, Andrea, 1957- author
- Goldblat, Karl Iro, author
- DOX Centrum současného umění
- Publication
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- Prague : DOX Centre for Contemporary Art ; Nuremberg : Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg ; [New York] : Distributed outside Europe [by] D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 349 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9788087446171, 8087446178, 9783869843704, 3869843705
- OCLC
- ocn826823837
- Cover title; subtitle from page 3.
- Catalog of the exhibition held at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Oct. 19, 2012-Jan. 28, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English and German.
- This side of the pleasure principle / Reinhard Priessnitz -- The feminine in Viennese actionism -- Vienna : afterwards and further -- Body and politics / Pilar Parcerisas -- Looking through the "crural cleft--pussy" (Brus) : material, objectival, and symbolic dimensions of actionist themes / August Ruhs -- The truth of the bodies : action and representation in Vienna actionism / Michaela Pöschl -- Nameless nymphs and unappreciaetd assistants : the women beside and behind the Viennese actionists / Almuth Spiegler -- We were hidden under some kind of invisible burka / Anna Brus in conversation with Andrea Schurlan -- Matriarchy by the grace of Otto / Karl Iro Goldblat -- The 4 actionists and Kurt Kren
Subjects
- Brus, Günter -- Exhibitions.
- Nitsch, Hermann, 1938-2022 -- Exhibitions.
- Mühl, Otto -- Exhibitions.
- Schwarzkogler, Rudolf, 1940-1969 -- Exhibitions.
- Hummel, Julius -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
- Wiener Aktionismus (Group of artists) -- Exhibitions.
- Action in art -- Exhibitions.
- Femininity in art -- Exhibitions.
- Women in art -- Exhibitions.
- Performance art -- Austria -- Vienna -- Exhibitions.
- Body art -- Austria -- Vienna -- Exhibitions.
- Arts, Austrian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
- Art -- Private collections -- Austria -- Vienna -- Exhibitions.