Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.
Contents:
Prelude -- The laws of the lawless. Pop multiples, camp affirmations -- The weapons of the underdog -- Art with no future? -- Children run riot : the art of the infantile -- Work vs. play -- Sex -- Pain and presence -- Dystopian with a twist -- The laws of the lawless.
Summary:
"The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement, combining archival research, interviews, and analysis. Marie Arleth Skov draws on personal interviews with artists from London, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin. "Punk Art History" spans paintings, drawings, collages, posters, zines, installations, sculptures, photographs, Super 8 films, documentation of performances and happenings, body art, and street art. Scandalous and spectacular public events are also discussed, like the "Prostitution" exhibition in London (1976) and Die Grobe Untergangshow (The Grand Downfall Show) in West Berlin (1981). Punks were not interested in becoming the next artworld ism -- they saw themselves as the rear-guards, not the avant-gardes and they rejeted the inherent notion of progress that the term avant-garde brings with it: how could a "no future" movement want to lead the way"-- Page 4 of cover.
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