Research Catalog

Title

Ammo : unter Waffen : fire & forget 2 = Ammo : under arms : fire & forget 2 / Museum angewandte Kunst Frankfurt.

Publication

• Berlin : Distanz, [2016]
• ©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

MAK Frankfurt, host institution.

Description

71, 71 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

Guns exert an ambivalent fascination. Embodiments of power and dominance, they also signify pain and death. Whether they help maintain public order, are used to exercise individual or collective violence, provide personal safety, or are sports or professional equipment: firearms and the menace they signal are always embedded in social structures. They are among us. The exhibition Under Arms. Fire & Forget 2 at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt examines the echoes of weaponry and the aesthetic of military equipment in fashion, design, art, and everyday culture. The show complements and extends the exhibition Fire & Forget. On Violence at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, in 2015, which explored the ways contemporary culture deals with weaponry and violence. Taking its title from an English colloquialism for ammunition, the publication "AMMO" emulates the glossy aesthetic of the art, advertising, design, and fashion press. Contributions by renowned guest authors including Olaf Arndt, Richard Brem, Klaus Günther, Andreas Hofbauer, and Barbara Vinken delve into fields such as military history and psychoanalysis, discuss nonlethal weaponry, camouflage, and the justification of self-defense, and analyze the reasons behind the popularity of military references in fashion.

Alternative Title

• Unter Waffen : fire & forget 2
• Ammo : under arms : fire & forget 2
• Under arms : fire & forget 2

Subject

• Military uniforms in art > Exhibitions
• Weapons in art > Exhibitions
• Fashion design > Exhibitions
• Art and war > Exhibitions
• Weapons in art
• Art and war
• Fashion design
• Military uniforms in art

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 10, 2016-March 26, 2017.
• Titles from covers.
• "2DA 637."

Language (note)

• German and English texts bound tête-bêche.

Call Number

JQF 18-2009

ISBN

• 9783954761739
• 3954761734

LCCN

9783954761739

OCLC

1001429699

Title

Ammo : unter Waffen : fire & forget 2 = Ammo : under arms : fire & forget 2 / Museum angewandte Kunst Frankfurt.

Publisher

Berlin : Distanz, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

German and English texts bound tête-bêche.

Added Author

MAK Frankfurt, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9783954761739

Research Call Number

JQF 18-2009