Gustav Metzger Metzger Gustav
Gustav Metzger Metzger Gustav Manifestos and texts on auto-destructive art and beyond from countercultural artist and activist Gustav MetzgerBringing together more than 350 texts written between 1953…
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Gustav Metzger Metzger Gustav
Manifestos and texts on auto-destructive art and beyond from countercultural artist and activist Gustav MetzgerBringing together more than 350 texts written between 1953 and 2016, this comprehensive volume establishes artist and activist Gustav Metzger (1926-2017) as one of the towering figures of the 20th century, a long-overdue recognition of Metzger's influential vision.Renowned for his use of unstable materials and chemical reactions to create artworks that embody processes of change, destruction and renewal, Metzger was also a prolific writer, theoretician and satirist. He put these ideas into His interest in technology and science and his anti-nuclear activism influenced his development of the concepts of auto-destructive and auto-creative art, terms he coined with his manifestos on "Auto-Destructive Art" in 1959 and "Auto-Creative Art" in 1961.