Hermann Nitsch

An attempt at the total work of art

  • Author Lóránd Hegyi
  • Binding Paperback with flaps
  • Size 13 x 21 cm
  • Pages 80
  • Illustrations 35
  • Language English
  • Year 2022
  • ISBN 9788836653119
  • Price € 12,00  € 11,40
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Abstract

Hermann Nitsch, one of the most paradigmatic artists of the legendary Wiener Aktionismus, author of performances and installations, paintings and drawings, through his artistic expressions creates a genuine “total theatre” that unites myth and aesthetics, religious metaphors and everyday life, classicism and archaism, and even a barbaric element, all this in a monumental form that has no equals.
In his project for the total work of art, the Orgien Mysterien Theater, Nitsch reveals the ethical and aesthetic reserves of meaning inherent in Wiener Aktionismus, a special form of performance art derived from the re-interpretation of myths and collective ritual praxis and forged by the artist-philosopher which is manifested in the activity of the masses, who take part in the performance.

“My actions drill into vivid being, wanting there to be being where there is nothing. I seek the vivid existence that lies deep in tragedy, where destruction and creation pervade each other. I seek intensity, I seek life.”
Hermann Nitsch

Contents

HERMANN NITSCH: AN ATTEMPT AT THE TOTAL WORK OF ART
The Orgien Mysterien Theater in the Context of Post-War Art in Austria

REFLECTIONS ON WIENER AKTIONISMUS
The Language of the Body Radicalized and Contextualized

THEATRE AND PAINTING: SPHERES OF ELEMENTARY SENSATIONS
Notes on Hermann Nitsch’s Synthesis of the Arts