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Bloomsbury Destruction Rites: Demolition and the Ephemeral in Postwar Visual Culture (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art): Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture

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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. Destruction Rites is the first book to explore 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, Yoko Ono 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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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1784533408
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 October 2016
Listed Since: 12 November 2014

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