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Enrico Baj : play as protest

Title
Enrico Baj : play as protest / [editors, Hilde de Bruijn, Carrie Pilto ; authors, Luca Bochicchio, Maurizio Cattelan, Carrie Pilto].
Author
Baj, Enrico, 1924-2003
Publication
Amstelveen : Cobra Museum of Modern Art, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Bruijn, Hilde de
  • Pilto, Carrie
  • Bochicchio, Luca
  • Cattelan, Maurizio, 1960-
  • Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands), host institution.
Description
142 pages : color illustrations; 32 cm.
Summary
Enrico Baj's works look playful, colourful and humorous, but simultaneously show his sharp socio-critical, even anarchist, attitude. Baj himself stated that "only fun can validly oppose the system". Baj used play as a form of engagement and creation as a form of protest. His work was a protest against fascism, totalitarian systems, the power of the ruling class and the potential annihilation of the environment (the then new nuclear threat). The exhibition shows how Baj playfully used the strategies of satire and deliberate disrespect as means of protest against a society that seems to be on the constant verge of self-destruction. Exhibition: Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands (04.02.-14.05.2017).
Alternative Title
Play as protest
Subject
  • Baj, Enrico, 1924-2003 > Exhibitions
  • Baj, Enrico, 1924-2003
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, Netherlands, February 4-May 14, 2017.
  • Limited ed. of 500 copies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9789075485219
  • 9075485212
OCLC
  • ocn974985347
  • SCSB-1881801
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library