Bøger af Karola Kraus

Demonstrating that the self-portrait has lost none of its relevance to contemporary art trends, this volume assesses the genre in the second half of the twentieth century. It includes examples by Bas Jan Ader, Joseph Beuys, General Idea, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding and Andy Warhol.

Vienna Actionism was the most extreme artistic project of the 1960s, mostly preceding and always surpassing the other performance art, body art and happenings in terms of sheer violent excess. This publication includes 1,400 colour images, biographies and an illustrated chronology and index of all the actions, literature and films of the movement.