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Destruction Rites: Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture

Autor Mona Hadler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2023
In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction - from the demolition derby where makeshift cars crashed into each other for sport, to concerts where musicians destroyed their instruments, to performances of self-destructing machines staged by contemporary artists. Destruction, in both its playful and fearsome aspects, was ubiquitous in the new Atomic Age. This complicated subjectivity was not just a way for people to find catharsis amid the fears of annihilation and postwar trauma, but also a complex instantiation of ideological crisis in a time with some seriously conflicted political myths. Destruction Rites explores the ephemeral visual culture of destruction in the postwar era and its links to contemporary art. It examines the demolition derby; games and toys based on warfare; playgrounds situated in bomb sites; and the rise of garage sales, where goods designed for obsolescence and destined for the garbage heap are reclaimed and repurposed by local communities.Mona Hadler looks at artists such as Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Martha Rosler and Vito Acconci to expose how the 1960s saw destruction, construction and the everyday collide as never before. During the Atomic age, whether in the public sphere or art museums, destruction could be transformed into a constructive force and art objects and performances often oscillated between the two.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350428973
ISBN-10: 1350428973
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 50 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Mona Hadler is Professor of Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She is also on the faculty at Brooklyn College. She has written widely on the art of Lee Bontecou and on the art of 1950s New York.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations 1. Introduction2. The Demolition Derby3. Garage Sales4. Revell Model Kits- Nuclear Hobbies5. Atomic Cooking6. Interview with Vito Acconci: Ephemerality and Destruction in the Public SpaceIndex