Witness to Phenomenon - Group ZERO and the Development of New Media in Postwar European Art

Witness to Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Gunter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art media in postwar Europe. Group ZERO evolved into a network across Europe- Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, and Zagreb. This pan-European affiliation of artists generated a continuous stream of innovative artistic statements through the 1960s, incorporating non-traditional materials and new technologies to create kinetic art, light installations, performances, immersive multimedia installations, monumental land art, and the communication media of video and television. They transformed the visual arts from the inanimate objet d''art to a sensory experience by adopting the ascendant philosophy of Phenomenology as their conceptual foundation. Drawing from a decade of research on unpublished archives of the artists and critics of this period, this publication positions Group ZERO as a catalytic art moment in the transition from modern to contemporary art.>

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• Authors: Joseph D. Ketner Ii, Joseph D. Ketner, Joseph D Ketner II, Joseph D. Ketner II, Joseph D. (Emerson College Ketner II
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781501331176
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-3117-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics; International Texts in Critica; International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics; International Texts in Critica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Performing Arts, European History, Germany, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Art, Film, TV & radio, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)