The Art of Destruction
The Vienna Action Group In Film, Performance & Revolt
Distributed for Solar Books
144 pages
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50 halftones
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7 x 10
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
1. The Origins of the Vienna Action Group 5 2. Otto Muehl 13 3. Günter Brus 23 4. Hermann Nitsch 31 5. Rudolf Schwarzkogler 39 6. Art Crimes and Exile 45 7. The Films of the Vienna Action Group 51 8. Kurt Kren 59 9. Ernst Schmidt Jr 67 10. Performance/Film 73 11. 6/64 Mama und Papa 79 12. Wiener Spaziergang 87 13. Bodybuilding 93 14. Kunst und Revolution 99 15. Zerreissprobe 105 16. Blood Orgies and Art-Pornography 111 17. Sex and the Art of Destruction 119 18. The Detritus of the Vienna Action Group and Contemporary Art 125 An Essential Filmography 131 An Essential Bibliography 143
Review Quotes
Time Out (Praise for the first edition)
“The Art of Destruction takes an unflinching look at the psychosexual extremity of the Vienna Action Group. . . . Lucid and spirited, it's a necessary study of this influential radical movement.”
Bookmunch (Praise for the first edition)
“The story is an engrossing and compelling one of arrests, imprisonment, notoriety, cult-like sex in chateaux, suicide and degradation... Fascinating.”
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