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Franz West, works 1970-1985 : Collection Hummel, years spent together / Georg Fritsch, Heidi Harsieber, Julius Hummel, Franz Koglmann, Friedl Kubelka, Rudolf Polanszky.

Title
Franz West, works 1970-1985 : Collection Hummel, years spent together / Georg Fritsch, Heidi Harsieber, Julius Hummel, Franz Koglmann, Friedl Kubelka, Rudolf Polanszky.
Author
West, Franz, 1947-2012.
Publication
Vienna : Schlebrügge.Editor, c2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Fritsch, Georg.
  • Harsieber, Heidi.
  • Hummel, Julius.
  • Koglmann, Franz.
  • Kubelka-Bondy, Friedl.
  • Polanszky, Rudolf, 1951-
Description
225 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 29 cm
Summary
Before Franz West became an internationally renowned artist - and his immense work an object of desire for collectors, gallerists, and museums - he had worked on developing his materials, techniques, and motifs in precarious economic conditions and largely unnoticed by the Vienna art scene of the 1960s and '70s. This book, presenting a vast collection of unpublished early works, offers a fresh look at the genesis of West's oeuvre, his exploration of Beuys, Freud, and Wittgenstein and of the philosophy of language and trivial culture. He begins to use his 'private' handwriting as a visual element, toys with techniques and materials (drawing, collage, overwriting, stone, plaster, wood), seeks means of expressing his disgust with latent everyday fascism, and attempts to come to terms with his conflicts with authority and the law. In his later works, West, who provoked many ruptures and shifts during his career - which ultimately erupted into fame - elaborated many formal and conceptual decisions of his early works. Here, the book reveals something that has heretofore remained in the shadows: West's loyalty to himself and his beginnings as a troublemaking crossover artist.
Alternative Title
  • Collection Hummel, years spent together
  • F. West
  • Franz West 1970-1985
Subject
  • Art > Private collections > Austria
  • Hummel, Julius > Art collections
  • West, Franz, 1947-2012
Note
  • Chiefly illustrated.
Language (note)
  • Parallel texts in English and German.
ISBN
  • 9783903172241
  • 3903172243
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries