Research Catalog

Amor, Psyche, Action - Vienna : the feminine in Viennese actionism, Collection Hummel Vienna

Title
Amor, Psyche, Action - Vienna : the feminine in Viennese actionism, Collection Hummel Vienna / [catalog concept: Julius Hummel ; editing: Julius Hummel, Silvia Jaklitsch, Barbara Toifl, Karin Friesenbichler ; foreword: Leoš Valka, Julius Hummel ; texts: Reinhard Priessnitz, Pilar Parcerisas, August Ruhs, Michaela Pöschl, Almuth Spiegler, Andrea Schurian, Karl Iro Goldblat].
Publication
  • Nürnberg : Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg ; Prague : DOX PRAGUE, [2012]
  • ©2012

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextUse in library NX600.P47 S54 2012gOff-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Hummel, Julius
  • Jaklitsch, Silvia
  • Toifl, Barbara
  • Friesenbichler, Karin
  • Priessnitz, Reinhard, 1945-
  • Parcerisas, Pilar, 1957-
  • Ruhs, August, 1946-
  • Pöschl, Michaela
  • Spiegler, Almuth
  • Schurian, Andrea, 1957-
  • Goldblat, Karl Iro
  • DOX Centrum současného umění.
Description
349 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
Summary
"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.
Alternative Title
Feminine in Viennese actionism
Subject
  • Brus, Günter > Exhibitions
  • Nitsch, Hermann, 1938- > 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 > Vienna > Exhibitions
  • Body art > Vienna > Exhibitions
  • Arts, Austrian > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art > Private collections > Vienna > Exhibitions
Note
  • Cover title; subtitle from page 3.
  • Catalog of the exhibition held at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Oct. 19, 2012-Jan. 28, 2013.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Engliash and German.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9788087446171 (Museum's edition)
  • 8087446178 (Museum's edition)
  • 9783869843704 (English edition : pbk.)
  • 3869843705 (English edition : pbk.)
OCLC
  • ocn826823837
  • 826823837
  • SCSB-9573830
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries