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Fantastic architecture / Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins.
Main entry:

Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998, author.

Title & Author:

Fantastic architecture / Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins.

Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, [2015]
©2015

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (black- & -white) ; 21 cm

Notes:
First English edition published by Something Else Press, 1971.
"Printed in an edition of 3,000"--Colophon.
Some pages are printed on mylar paper.
Artists include: Ay-o, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Pol Bury, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Michael Heizer, Bici Hendricks, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jan Jacob Herman, Dick Higgins, K.H. Hödicke, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Koepcke, Franz Mon, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot, Gerhard Rühm, Carolee Schneemann, Frances Starr, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner, Stefan Wewerka.
"Rühm, Oldenburg, Hausmann, Schwitters, Buchholz, Cage, Vostell, Hamilton, Hollein, Bury, Wewerka, Higgins, Koepcke, B. Hendricks, G. Hendricks, Weiner, Beuys, Knizak, Oppenheim, Mon, Schneemann, Ben, Filliou, Rot, Ayo, Starr, Knowles, Corner, Huebler, Heizer, Dibbets, Hödicke, Herman, Fuller, Tinguely, Spoerri"--Dustjacket.
Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, "Fantastic Architecture" anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects have only just begun to escape from the drawing board mentality," and articulated the need for "creating space, which may or may not be functional, but which is "at least" relevant to the sensory environment in which we live. The economics of building has led to an aridity in our experience which is not consistent with the richness of our time." Against this, Higgins and Vostell advocate the approach of polymath artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, Erich Buchholz, John Cage and Buckminster Fuller.
Originally published in German in 1969 by Droste Verlag under the title: Pop Architektur.
Text in English, translated from the German.
Summary:

Primary Information is reprinting the seminal book, Fantastic Architecture, making the book widely available for the first time since it was originally published: first in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German (with the title Pop Architektur) and later in 1970 by Something Else Press as Fantastic Architecture. Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist's book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier-from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys. It will retain the book's unique design, specifically its Mylar inserts, which add unique depth and elaborate the publication's content.

ISBN:

0990689603
9780990689607

Subject:

Architecture in art 20th century.
Conceptual art Germany 20th century.
Fantasy in art 20th century.
Fantastic architecture.
Artists' books New York (State) 21st century.
Architecture dans l'art 20e siècle.
Fantasmes dans l'art 20e siècle.
Architecture fantastique.
Livres d'artistes New York (État) 21e siècle.
fantastic architecture.
Architecture in art.
Artists' books.
Conceptual art.
Fantasy in art.
Germany.
New York (State)

Form/genre:

artists' books (books)
facsimiles (reproductions)
illustrated books.
Artists' books.
Facsimiles.
Illustrated works.
Artists' books New York (State) New York 2015.
Illustrated works New York (State) New York 2015.
Limitation statements (Publishing) New York (State) New York 2015.
Livres d'artistes.
Fac-similés.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998, author.
Primary Information (Organization), publisher.
United States New York (State) New York

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290682
Call No.: BIB 233812
Status: Available

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