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Title

Museum Hermann Nitsch / edited by MZM Museumszentrum Mistelbach for the Museum Hermann Nitsch ; in collaboration with Wolfgang Denk ; text by Carl Aigner ... [et al.].

Author

Nitsch, Hermann, 1938-2022

Publication

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz ; New York : Distribution partners: USA/North America, D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Museumszentrum Mistelbach (Austria)
• Museum Hermann Nitsch.
• Museum Hermann Nitsch (Mistelbach, Austria)

Description

257, [9] p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, who was born in Vienna in 1938, began painting in the late 1950s and early 1960s under the influence of Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism. He subsequently put on "theatrical" painting performances during which the so-called Schuttbilder (spill paintings) were created. Although Nitsch was still using red paint on his large canvases in 1961, he gradually replaced it with blood. Instead of stretching canvas on frames, he began to use bed sheets, and also started working with internal organ, animal cadavers, and human bodies. With his Orgies Mysteries Theater, Nitsch fulfilled his concept of a Gesamtkunstwerk, a complete work of art embracing painting architecture, and music with reference to Greek mystery festivals aiming to achieve catharsis that would ultimately lead to the recognition of one's own self."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Nitsch, Hermann, 1938-2022 > Exhibitions
• 2000-2099
• Performance art > Austria > Exhibitions
• Arts, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "This book is published in conjunction with the opening of the Hermann Nitsch Museum in Mistelbach"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hermann Nitsch Museum / MZM -- the Mistelbach Museum Center -- Hermann Nitsch and the Hermann Nitsch Museum, or from artists' legends to artists' museums / Romana Schuler -- My roads to Nitsch / Wolfgang Denk -- Hermann Nitsch -- Approximative thoughts on the complex relationship between photography and Hermann Nitsch's O.M. Theater / Carl Aigner -- Heinz Cibulka -- Images between spontaneity and calcuation : the role of painting in Hermann Nitch's work / Wieland Schmied.

ISBN

• 9783775720137 (English)
• 3775720138 (English)
• 9783775720120 (German)
• 377572012X (German)

OCLC

• 180165932
• SCSB-10116878

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Harvard Library