Czech Action Art
Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain
Distributed for the Karolinum Press, Charles University
- Contents
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Czech Action Art
The Artwork and Its Context – A Historical Framework
The Victory of the Idea over Matter – A Question of Documentation
Czech Performance Art from Futurism to the Present
1. A Breakthrough to the Everyday
Milan Knížák’s Aktual
Czech Collective Actions
2. A Return to Nature
A Transformed Landscape
Nature and the Body
Elements
3. An Experience of the Body
The Prague Body-Art Troika
Performance Art of the 1970s and 80s
Epilogue
Post-1989 Czech Action Art
List of Actions
Czech Action Art 1960-1989
Bibliography
Index
Art: European Art
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