Author: Levy, Aaron
Title: Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America
Description: Philadelphia, Slought Books, 2008. Softcover. Glossy softcover book with white text down a mostly black spine. Pages: (10), 1-229. Illustrated with black-and-white images. Includes a DVD. "Accompanying DVD, entitled 'Hermann Nitsch: das orgien Mysterien theater: die actionen, 1962-2003,' is a montage of still photographs taken during performances of Nitsch's pieces." Contents are as follows: Introduction -- Towards an extreme art / Aaron Levy -- Nitsch's experiential aesthetic / Lorand Hegyi -- On the aesthetics of the photography of actionism / Dieter Ronte -- Redemption through blood / Osvaldo Romberg -- "The abyss of the scream" : the music of Hermann Nitsch / Adrian Daub -- Extraversions : an archaeology of blood and guts / Michøle Richman -- The Grünewald of happenings" : on traumatic subjectivity / Susan Jarosi -- Nitsch's chiasmus / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Photographic documentation of Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, 1962-2003 : manifestos and historical texts : selections from declarations and descriptions of the O.M. Theatre Project. VG+/VG+: DVD as new in shrinkwrap .

Keywords: European Artists ; Nitsch, Hermann ; ;


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