The Art of Destruction: The Vienna Action Group in Film, Performance & Revolt

by Stephen Barber

The Vienna Action Group, known for their grotesque, iconoclastic, ritualistic, and sexual works, formed one of the most provocative art movements of the 1960s. This short-lived group--with participants including G nter Brus, Otto M hl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler-- stirred shock and moral outrage as it produced a series of performance-based works that transformed the human body through violent and transgressive actions, often involving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098324801X
• ISBN13: 9780983248019
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Solar Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"