The iconoclastic work of the Vienna Action 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, and including an extensive filmography, 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.
Stephen Barber is professor at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, and a fellow of the Free University Berlin. His recent books include Berlin Bodies: Anatomizing the Streets of the City, White Noise Ballrooms, and Film's Ghosts: Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan.
Title: Art of Destruction, The: The Vienna Action Group In Film, Art & Performance
Author: Stephen,Barber
ISBN: 9780983248019
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Publisher: Solar Books
Publication Date: 2021-01-28
Number of Pages: 144
Weight: 0.3401 kg
The Art of Destruction takes an unflinching look at the psychosexual extremity of the Vienna Action Group. . . . Lucid and spirited, it's a necessary study of this influential radical movement. * Time Out (Praise for the first edition) *
The story is an engrossing and compelling one of arrests, imprisonment, notoriety, cult-like sex in chateaux, suicide and degradation... Fascinating. * Bookmunch (Praise for the first edition) *