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Individuals against individualism : art collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969) / Jacopo Galimberti.
Fine Arts Library N6758.5.P65 G36 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galimberti, Jacopo, author.
- Series:
- Value, art, politics ; 14.
- Value : Art : Politics ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Political aspects--Europe, Western--History--20th century.
- Art.
- Art, European--20th century.
- Art, European.
- Art--Political aspects.
- History.
- Western Europe.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 363 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "This volume is the first publication to examine in detail the phenomenon of collective art practice in the continental Western Europe of the late 1950s and of the 1960s. The book elaborates a comparative perspective, engaging with a cultural history of art deeply concerned with political ideas and geopolitical conflicts. Groups of artists and activists including Equipo 57, Equipo Cronica, Equipo Realidad, N, GRAV, Spur, Geflecht and Kommune I, have often been neglected in the English-speaking world. This happened partly because they were active in allegedly minor art centres such as Valencia, Padua, Cordoba, West-Berlin and Munich. However, their works, debates and intellectual networks cast new light on both the art produced during the Cold War and the heightened interest in participatory and collaborative art practices that has characterised the art world of the 2000s and 2010s. Individuals against Individualism tells the stories of these artists and activists, and focuses on their attempts to depict and embody forms of egalitarianism opposing the Eastern bloc authoritarianism as much as the Free world's ethos. By setting their political use of collective authorship, resistance to institutional co-optation and attack on the ideology of freedom, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the book largely speaks to the present."--Cover page 4.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Re-emergence of Collective Art Practice, 1956-1962 15
- Cult of Personality and Collective Leadership: Situationist Individual and Authorship 16
- The "We" against and the "Prefabricated Masses" 19
- Situationist Authorship 28
- A Situationist Collective Installation 36
- "The Only Chance Resides in Forming Groups": Spur from Munich to Europe 40
- Spur's Renewal of Individualism 42
- An Art Group to Embody the Third Way 49
- The Expulsion and Trial of Spur 60
- Art Groups and Civil Society: Equipo 57 in Franco's Spain 68
- Co-opting Individuality 70
- Art for the Strikes 89
- Chapter 2 The Controversial Success of Collective Art Practice, 1960-1965 99
- Between Marx and Malraux: GRAV in Gaullist France 100
- Motus' Collective Authorship 104
- Motus and Lukács 111
- Collective Art Practice and the Synthesis of the Arts 116
- From Paris to New York 129
- Collective Art Practice and Class Struggle: The N Group and the Operaisti 133
- From Padua to New York 133
- The Operaisti 144
- N's Political Turn 151
- Manfredo, Do You Remember the N Group? 162
- Chapter 2 The Moment of Collective Painting, 1963-1968 167
- The Making of a Militant Salon: Collective Painting in Paris 168
- A New Figuration in Mid-1960s France 170
- Avant-grade Artists as "Useful Idiots"? 180
- Collective Painting in Cuba 193
- We Are Not Painters 202
- The Salle rouge 204
- Realism and Collectivism: Equipo Crónica and Equipo Realidad 208
- Economic Boom and Crónica de la Realidad 212
- Equipo Crónica 219
- Equipo Realidad 234
- Avant-garde and Dictatorship 243
- Deconstructing the Individual: from Spur to Geflecht 244
- Spur's Final Years 246
- Geflecht 261
- Chapter 4 Collective Art and Protest, 1967-1969 277
- Collective Life and Art in West Berlin: Kommune I 278
- Artists and Activists 281
- From Spur to Kommune I 283
- Kommune I 289
- The Collective and the Anonymous: Collective Art and Occupations 297
- The Invisible Artist 297
- The Atelier Populaire 300
- The Occupation of the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels) 312
- The Occupation of the Triennale (Milan) 318
- The Occupation of the Akademie (Munich) 321
- The Burden of Success: The End of GRAV 328
- "The Privileged Artist against Whom We Fought Is Ourselves!" 329
- A New Beginning? 340.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781781383193
- 1781383197
- 9781786940056
- 1786940051
- OCLC:
- 973402175
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