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Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gustav Metzger: The Conversation Series: Vol. 16

Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gustav Metzger: The Conversation Series: Vol. 16

Metzger, Gustav
Obrist, Hans Ulrich

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Series: Conversation (Verlag Der Buchhandlung), Book 16

Art Criticism & Theory

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ISBN10: 3865604986
ISBN13: 9783865604989
Publisher: Walther Konig Koln
Published: Mar 1 2009
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
In volume 16 of The Conversation Series, Hans Ulrich Obrist presents an in-depth exchange with the venerable German-born artist and activist Gustav Metzger, which illuminates the artist's fascinating life and 60-year career. In 1959, Metzger penned a manifesto of Auto-destructive art, which states in part, Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and constructions have a lifetime varying from a few moments to 20 years. When the disintegrative process is complete, the work is to be removed from the site and scrapped. In this volume, Metzger talks to Obrist about his past and present association with Auto-destructive art, how he has come to fuse his art practice with his political commitment to human rights and ecology, how he escaped the Holocaust at the age of 13 and the many projects he has yet to realize.

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