The Anti-Museum : An Anthology
  • exhibition catalogue
  • cloth boards issued without dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.6 x 17.2 cm.
  • 792 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9783960980032

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

Mathieu Copeland, Balthazar Lovay, Johannes Cladders, Beatriz Colomina, Henry Flynt, John Armleder, Robert Barry, Ben and Genesis P-Orridge, Ben Vautier, Zach Blas, Kenneth Goldsmith, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Robert Morris, Bob Nickas, Sören Schmeling, Reiko Tomii, Jon Hendricks, Jean Toche

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

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Anthology published in conjunction with show "A Retrospective of Closed Exhibitions," an exhibition by Mathieu Copeland at Fri Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland, August 6 - November 19, 2016. Edited by Mathieu Copeland and Balthazar Lovay. Introduction by Mathieu Copeland. Texts by Johannes Cladders, Beatriz Colomina, Henry Flynt, and many others. Includes interviews with John Armleder, Robert Barry and Ben and Genesis P-Orridge.

"The museum is constantly a target for criticism, whether it comes from artists, thinkers, curators, or even the public. From the avant-gardes of the twentieth century up until our contemporary era, the museum s suspect position has generated countless gestures, iconoclastic actions, scathing attacks, utopias, and alternative exhibition spaces. For the first time, this anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist, anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. This notion - unpatented but regularly reappropriated - traces the erratic, fractured, and sometimes paradoxical counter-history of the contestation of artistic institutions. From the first anti-exhibition to the first catalog retracing the history of "Closed Exhibitions" from Dada to Noise music, from "Everything is Art" to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, and not forgetting such major protest figures as Gustav Metzger, Henry Flynt, Graciela Carnevale, and Lydia Lunch, The Anti-Museum sketches a polyphonic panorama where negation is accompanied by a powerful breath of life." -- publisher's statement.

London, United Kingdom: Koenig Books,
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