The Anti-Museum: An Anthology

The Anti-Museum: An Anthology

Matthieu Copeland, John Armleder, Robert Barry, Henry Flynt, Kenneth Goldsmith • Koenig Books

ISBN-10: 3960980035 · ISBN-13: 978‑3960980032 · 2017

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The museum is a constant target for criticism, whether from artists, thinkers, curators or the public. From the 20th-century avant-gardes to the present, the museum's suspect position has generated iconoclastic actions, attacks, utopias and alternative exhibition spaces. This anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist and anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. From Dada to noise music, from Everything is Arté to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, plus 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.

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