Destruction rites : ephemerality and demolition in postwar visual culture /

Destruction rites : ephemerality and demolition in postwar visual culture /

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Author / Creator:	Hadler, Mona, author.
Imprint:	London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art ; 27 International library of modern and contemporary art.
Subject:	Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives. Art, Modern -- Themes, motives.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11006236

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ISBN:	9781784533403 1784533408 9781786721594 9781786731593
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-237) and index.
Summary:	In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction - from the demolition derby where makeshift cars crashed into each other for sport, to concerts where musicians destroyed their instruments, to performances of self-destructing machines staged by contemporary artists. Destruction, in both its playful and fearsome aspects, was ubiquitous in the new Atomic Age. This complicated subjectivity was not just a way for people to find catharsis amid the fears of annihilation and postwar trauma, but also a complex instantiation of ideological crisis-in a time with some seriously conflicted political myths. Destruction Rites explores the ephemeral visual culture of destruction in the postwar era and its links to contemporary art. It examines the demolition derby; games and toys based on warfare; playgrounds situated in bomb sites; and the rise of garage sales, where goods designed for obsolescence and destined for the garbage heap are reclaimed and repurposed by local communities. Mona Hadler looks at artists such as Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Martha Rosler and Vito Acconci to expose how the 1960s saw destruction, construction and the everyday collide as never before. During the Atomic age, whether in the public sphere or art museums, destruction could be transformed into a constructive force and art objects and performances often oscillated between the two.

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Call Number:	N6490.H217 2017
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