Art and revolution : transversal activism in the long twentieth century / Gerald Raunig ; translated by Aileen Derieg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raunig, Gerald, 1963-

Series:

Semiotext(e) active agents series

Standardized Title:

Kunst und Revolution. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Arts and revolutions.

Arts--Political aspects.

Arts.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Physical Description:

319 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by The MIT Press, [2007]

Summary:

Art and Revolution investigates practices emerging in neighboring zones where art and revolution overlap for a limited time, in more or less well developed forms. Yet even when their rapprochement fails, traces of the overlap can still be recognized. They will be analyzed here through various practices, from Courbet to Russian Futurism and Constructivism, from the Viennese Actionists and the Situationist International to the Publix-TheatreCaravan in Genoa.

Often activist practices are not included in the narratives and archives of political history and art theory, or only acknowledged when purged of their radical aspects. In order to break through these mechanisms of exclusion or recodification, an as yet missing theorization of activist art practices has to develop with new concept-clusters connecting contexts in ways not previously acknowledged. Gerald Raunig has written an alternative history of the "long twentieth century" that resists flat notions of linear progress current in objectivistic historiography. Instead it chronicles the attempts that were made repeatedly to burst out of this constructed continuum. It will encourage a new generation of artists and thinkers to work towards the explosive nexus of art and activism.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Concatenation of Art and Revolution 9

2 The Three Components of the Revolutionary Machine 25

3 Out of Sync: The Paris Commune as Revolutionary Machine 67

4 The Courbet Model. Sequential Concatenation: Artist, Revolutionary, Artist 97

5 Spirit and Betrayal: German "Activism" in the 1910s 113

6 Disruptive Monsters: From Representing to Constructing Situations 131

7 "Art and Revolution," 1968: Viennese Actionism and the Negative Concatenation 187

8 The Transversal Concatenation of the PublixTheatreCaravan: Temporary Overlaps of Art and Revolution 203

9 After 9/11: Postscript on an Immeasurable Border Space 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.

Translated from the German.

"Originally published as: Kunst und revolution"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

9781584350460

1584350466

OCLC:

153578148