A.A. Bronson, Peggy Gale (eds.): Performance by Artists (1979) [English, French]
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, avant-garde, performance, performance art
Early anthology and commentaries on performance art.
Publisher Art Metropole, Toronto, 1979
ISBN 0920956009, 9780920956007
319 pages
PDF (88 MB, no OCR)
Comment (0)Sarah E.K. Smith: General Idea: Life & Work (2016) [English, French]
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, conceptual art, mail art, media art, public art
“Provocateurs General Idea (active 1969–1994) invented their history and made it reality: ‘We wanted to be famous, glamourous and rich. That is to say we wanted to be artists and we knew that if we were famous and glamourous we could say we were artists and we would be. … We did and we are. We are famous, glamourous artists.’ The group—comprised of AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal—met in Toronto in the late 1960s and went on to live and work together for twenty-five years. General Idea ceased activities in 1994, with the untimely deaths of Partz and Zontal from AIDS-related causes.”
Publisher Art Canada Institute, 2016
Open access
ISBN 9781487100926
138 pages
English: PDF, PDF (28 MB), HTML (includes videos)
French: PDF, PDF (28 MB), HTML (includes videos)
Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980 (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1968, 1970s, history, media, non-aligned movement, politics, protest, resistance
“Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the non-aligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.”
Edited by Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth
Publisher Berghahn Books, New York, 2011
Protest, Culture, and Society series, 7
ISBN 9780857451064, 0857451065
vi+347 pages
via publisher
Reviews: Caroline Hoefferle (J Study of Radicalism, 2012), Benoît Challand (Memory Studies, 2013), Rosemary H.T. O’Kane (Political Studies Rev, 2013), Sarah Žabić (Peace&Change, 2013), Matthias Dapprich (J Cold War Studies, 2014), Francis D. Raška (European Legacy, 2016).
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