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Witness to phenomenon : Group ZERO and the development of new media in postwar European art / Joseph D. Ketner II.
Fine Arts Library N6494.Z47 K48 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ketner, Joseph D., II, 1955- author.
- Series:
- International texts in critical media aesthetics ; vol. 12.
- International texts in critical media aesthetics ; vol. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nouvelle tendance (Exhibition).
- Zero (Group of artists).
- Art, European--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Art, European.
- Art, European--Themes, motives.
- Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- Summary:
- Witness of Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art media in postwar Europe. Group ZERO evolved into a network across Europe- Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, and Zagreb. This pan-European affiliation of artists generated a continuous stream of innovative artistic statements through the 1960s, incorporating non-traditional materials and new technologies to create kinetic art, light installations, performances, immersive multimedia installations, monumental land art, and the communication media of video and television. They transformed the visual arts from the inanimate objet d'art to a sensory experience by adopting the ascendant philosophy of Phenomenology as their conceptual foundation. Drawing from a decade of research on unpublished archives of the artists and critics of this period, this publication positions Group ZERO as a catalytic art moment in the transition from modern to contemporary art.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Europe After the Rain: Un art autre, art informel 15
- 2 "Does Contemporary Painting Influence the Shape of the World?": The Problem of Painting and the Question of Reality 49
- 3 ZERO, the New Tendency, and New Media 101
- 4 Artists' Actions into Theater 143
- 5 Aistheton: Immersive Multimedia Environments 173
- 6 The Vision of Television 205
- 7 Coda 251.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-281) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ketner, Joseph D., II, 1955- Witness to phenomenon.
- ISBN:
- 9781501331176
- 1501331175
- OCLC:
- 973801372
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