Main entry:

Destruction (M.I.T. Press)

Title & Author:

Destruction / edited by Sven Spieker.

Publication:

London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017.
©2017

Description:

237 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

Documents of contemporary art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Destruction's Constructs. Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848 / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Eduard Fuchs: Collector and historian, 1937 / Walter Benjamin -- On the genealogy of morals, 1887 / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Being and time, 1927 / Martin Heidegger -- The destructive character, 1931 / Walter Benjamin -- The process of creative destruction, 1942 / Joseph A. Schumpeter -- Manifesto of the Atomic Age, 1946 / Virgil Jordan -- The end of the book and the beginning of writing, 1967 / Jacques Derrida -- That strange passion for fleeing criticism, 2005 / Federico Galende -- In conversation with Catherine Grenier, 2005 / Alain Badiou -- Destruction, negation, subtraction, 2007 / Alain Badiou -- On the limits of negation in Badiou's theory of art, 2008 / John Roberts -- Destructive Creation. Why until 1953 I tore up many of my works, used them as heating material, or threw them in the trash, 1969 / Arnulf Rainer -- Collective realities, 1971 / Jacques Villeglé -- dé-coll/age, 1971 / Wolf Vostell -- Manifesto, 1963 / Wolf Vostell -- From collage to décollage, 2014 / Germano Celant -- On erased de Kooning drawing, 1987 / Robert Rauschenberg -- Gutai Art Manifesto, 1956 / Yoshihara Jiro -- A flash of Neo-Dada: Cheerful destroyers in Tokyo, 1993 / Raiji Kuroda -- Foundation for an aesthetic of destruction, 1961 / Aldo Pellegrini -- Destructivism: A manifesto, c. 1961-62 / Raphael Montañez Ortiz -- On Raphael Montañez Ortiz's destructive process in the early 1960s / Kristine Stiles -- Raphael Montañez Ortiz: Early destruction, 1997 / Chon A. Noriega -- Statement, 1987 / Niki de Saint Phalle -- The destruction of art, 1997 / Dario Gamboni -- On homage to New York, 1962 / Jean Tinguely -- Destruction as a mode of creation, 1974 / John Fisher -- Manifesto of auto-destructive art, 1959-61 / Gustav Metzger -- In conversation with Clive Phillpot, 2009 / Gustav Metzger -- Piece of the wind, 1962 / Yoko Ono -- Travel piece, 1964 / Yoko Ono -- Destructive art, 1961 / Kenneth Kemble -- Destroyed music, 1979 / Milan Knížák -- Cracked media: The sound of malfunction, 2009 / Caleb Kelly -- Statement, 1964 / Arman -- Supermarket, 1966 / Otto Muehl -- Statement, 2013 / Raphael Montañez Ortiz -- Statement for destruction in art symposium, 1966 / Joseph H. Berke -- Statement for destruction in art symposium, 1966 / John Latham -- The story of the destruction in art symposium and the 'DIAS Affect', 2005 / Kristine Stiles -- Erasure in art: Destruction, deconstruction and palimpsest, 1998 / Richard Galpin -- Five-year guarantee, 1968 / Norman Bauman -- On works 1969-70, 1970 / Terry Fox -- Similar to the principle of overpainting..., 1970 / Arnulf Rainer -- Wrocław '70, 1970 / Jerzy Ludwiński -- In conversation with Liza Béar, 1974 / Gordon Matta-Clark -- On Gordon Matta-Clark: Splitting, 1999 / Pamela M. Lee -- Iconic treatise: Gothic futurism, 1979 / Rammellzee -- In conversation with Tim Rollins, 1993 / Felix Gonzalez-Torres -- Statement, 2013 / Michael Landy -- Statement, 2013 / Jake & Dinos Chapman -- Negations. On cremation project and cremation project with corpus wafers, 1970 / John Baldessari -- In conversation with Gilbert Perlain, 2006 / Jean-Pierre Raynaud -- Statement on burning, 1986 / Huang Yong Ping -- Looking for Bruce Conner, 2012 / Kevin Hatch -- The Lebanon series, 2001 / Carolee Schneemann -- Archive fever: a Freudian impression, 1995 / Jacques Derrida -- Let's be honest, the weather helped (1998), 2006 / Walid Raad -- The withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster, 2009 / Jalal Toufic -- World heritage: Shield or target?, 2001 / Dario Gamboni -- Framing art vandalism, 2008 / M.J. Williams -- Breaking idols...A genuine request for initiation, 2002 / Tobie Nathan -- What is iconoclash? Or is there a world, beyond the image wars? 2002 / Bruno Latour -- In the shadows of monuments: Notes on iconoclasm and time, 1995 / Mikhail Iampolski -- In conversation with Boris Groys, 2007 / Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani -- Ephemeral archives, 2011 / Susan Buck-Morss -- In conversation with Cuauhtémoc Medina, 2011 / Enrique Ježik -- Statement, 2013 / Lucy Skaer -- Disintegrity. The lunch (in memoriam Batu Khan), 1968 / Gábor Altorjay -- Shaman, thespian, saboteur: Marcos Kurtycz and the ritual poetics of institutional profanation, 2016 / Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra -- On the destruction of the father,1988 / Louise Bourgeois -- How to escape the swamp, 1977 / Otto Muehl -- The constitution of shit, dust and grime, 2003 / Stuart Brisley -- Substance, substitute: Hummels, 2009 / Paul McCarthy -- The art of destruction: Dances on the bosses' heads, 2005 / Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurz -- Bataille's museum, 2001 / Sven Spieker -- In conversation with Martha Wilson, 1996 / William Pope.L -- Fantastic destruction: Isa Genzken, 2014 / Hal Foster -- Division-unity-fragmentation: On Douglas Gordon's self-portrait, 2011 / Klaus Görner -- Statement, 2013 / Douglas Gordon -- 'No construction without destruction': Ceramics, sculpture and iconoclasm, 2013 / Laura Gray -- The goal of art is destruction, 2014 / Petr Pavlensky -- In conversation with Alexander Alberro, 2014 / Monica Bonvicini -- A song of old and new, 2015 / Song Dong -- The law in our hands, 2016 / Joan Kee.

Summary:

"The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects. The self-destructing artwork extinguishes art's fixity as arrested form and ushers in the ephemeral and contingent 'open work. This anthology explores artworks that convey the threat of destruction an how they have disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions. Artistic acts of iconoclasm or risk to the self have raised consciousness of authoritarian oppression. More understated works explore the theme of destruction in armed conflict, media violence, and threats to the environment. These text make up the first collection to be focused systematically on destruction in modern and contemporary art"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262534345 (MIT Press ; paperback)
0262534347 (MIT Press ; paperback)
0854882588 (Whitechapel Gallery ; paperback)
9780854882588 (Whitechapel Gallery ; paperback)

Subject:

Destruction art.
Destruction et pillage dans l'art.
Destruction (Art)
Art and Design.
Kunst
Zerstörung

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays
Essais.

Added entries:

Spieker, Sven, editor.
Documents of contemporary art series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 327538
Call No.: 327538
Copy: 1
Status: Available