What is Vienna Actionism?

Lisa Moravec

ISBN 10: 3969121574 / ISBN 13: 9783969121573

Published by Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsges Feb 2025, 2025

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Neuware -Schläge wurden ausgeteilt, man entblößte und ritzte sich, urinierte, beschmierte sich mit Schmutzund onanierte auf Österreichs Flagge. Wien, Ende der 1960er Jahre: auf der großen Bühne deröffentliche Tabubruch. Das Wiener Aktionismus Museum widmet sich in seiner ersten Publikationdem Begriff des Wiener Aktionismus im Spannungsfeld von abstraktem Realismus, Fluxus undinternationaler Happening-Kunst. Das Buch erzählt von einer der einflussreichsten Kunstströmungen der Kunstgeschichte, geprägt durch die Aktionisten Günter Brus und Otto Muehl,Hermann Nitsch und Rudolf Schwarzkogler. 292 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What is Vienna Actionism?
• Publisher: Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsges Feb 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3969121574
• ISBN 13: 9783969121573
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 255W x 179H x 0D millimeters 255 millimeters width by 179 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth

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Synopsis

Blows were dealt. An artist exposed and cut himself, others urinated in glasses, daubed themselves with dirt, and masturbated over the Austrian flag. Meanwhile, music was playing, including the national anthem; someone read pornographic writings. Vienna in the late 1960s: what had started in the artists’ homes and studios was now brough out on the grand stage, and taboos were broken in full view of the public. The Vienna Actionism Museum’ s first publication is dedicated to the idea of Vienna Actionism in the dynamic context of abstract realism, Fluxus, and the international Happening scene. The book relates the story of one of art history’ s most influential art movements, spearheaded by the Actionists Gü nter Brus and Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.

About the Author

Lisa Moravec is writer, curator, critic, editor, lecturer and body practitioner. Julia Moebus-Puck is an art historian with a focus on performance art and Viennese Actionism. She has been director of the new Vienna Actionism Museum in Vienna since May 2023, which will open in 2024. Eva Badura-Triska is an art historian and worked as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art Vienna until 2019. She is also Secretary General of the “ Archiv Franz West” Vienna and Chief Curator at the Vienna Actionism Museum WAM.