Blood orgies : Hermann Nitsch in America / edited and introduced by Aaron Levy ; contributions by Lorand Hegyi ... [and others].

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Levy, Aaron.
• Hegyi, Lóránd.

Series:

• Contemporary artist series ; no. 4.
• Contemporary artist series ; no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Nitsch, Hermann, 1938-2022--Criticism and interpretation.
• Nitsch, Hermann, 1938-2022.
• Performance art--Austria.
• Performance art.
• Criticism and interpretation.
• Austria.

Physical Description:

229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 videodisc (13 min. : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Slought Books, 2008.

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying DVD: PAL DVD player, or computer-based media player.

Summary:

Accompanying DVD, entitled Hermann Nitsch : das orgien Mysterien theater : die actionen, 1962-2003 (director, Peter Kasparak; editor, Adam Wallisch, Cosmos Factory, 2004), is a montage of still photographs taken during performances of Nitsch's pieces.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Towards an extreme art / Aaron Levy
• Nitsch's experiential aesthetic / Lorand Hegyi
• On the aesthetics of the photography of actionism / Dieter Ronte
• Redemption through blood / Osvaldo Romberg
• "The abyss of the scream" : the music of Hermann Nitsch / Adrian Daub
• Extraversions : an archaeology of blood and guts / Michèle Richman
• The Grünewald of happenings" : on traumatic subjectivity / Susan Jarosi
• Nitsch's chiasmus / Jean-Michel Rabaté
• Photographic documentation of Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, 1962-2003 : manifestos and historical texts : selections from declarations and descriptions of the O.M. Theatre Project.

Notes:

• "Produced with the 2007-2008 RBSL Bergman Curatorial Seminar, University of Pennsylvania."
• Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Hermann Nitsch

ISBN:

• 9780981540900
• 0981540902

OCLC:

234257123