Raphael Montañez Ortíz

Rafael Montañez Ortíz (30 January 1934, Brooklyn, NY) was an innovator in the destruction art movement of the 1960s. He was a member of several artist-activists groups that opposed the Vietnam War and fought to end racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination in the United States. Ortiz also conceived and founded El Museo del Barrio in New York City in 1969.

Publications

• "Destructivism: A manifesto" [1962], 1988. [1]

• "Computer-Laser-Video" [1984], 1988. [2]

• Documents on ICAA

Catalogues

• Rafael Montañez Ortiz. Years of the Warrior 1960, Years of the Psyche 1988, New York: El Museo del Barrio, 1988, 62 pp. Exh. cat.

• Raphael Montañez Ortíz. Laser/Disc/Scratch/Destruction, ed. Pedro Reyes, México City: LABOR, 2011, 37 pp. Exh. cat.

Literature

• Kristine Stiles, "The Story of the Destruction in Art Symposium and the “DIAS affect”", in Gustav Metzger. Geschichte Geschichte, ed. Sabina Breitwieser, Vienna: Generali Foundation, and Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005, pp 41-65.

• Chon A. Noriega, "Against the Archive: Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s Destructivist Cinema", Afterall 21, Summer 2009. [3]

Links

• Wikipedia