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Body psyche & taboo: vienna actionism and early vienna modernism

06/01/2016 00:00:00 Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigISBN:
  • 9783863359577
Subject(s): Summary: The central concepts of Body, Psyche, and Taboo is a presentation of both the intellectual and the formal links between Vienna Actionism and artistic developments in early 20th century Vienna. Works by Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler the scandal artists of the 1960s are compared and contrasted with pieces by their equally controversial colleagues working at the dawn of the twentieth century, including Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele, among others. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Body, Psyche, and Taboo: Vienna Actionism and Early Vienna Modernism at mumok, Vienna, 4 March 16 May 2016.

The central concepts of Body, Psyche, and Taboo is a presentation of both the intellectual and the formal links between Vienna Actionism and artistic developments in early 20th century Vienna. Works by Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler the scandal artists of the 1960s are compared and contrasted with pieces by their equally controversial colleagues working at the dawn of the twentieth century, including Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele, among others. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Body, Psyche, and Taboo: Vienna Actionism and Early Vienna Modernism at mumok, Vienna, 4 March 16 May 2016.