Strategy : get arts : 35 artists who broke the rules /
Weikop, Christian,author.
Strategy: Get Arts (SGA) was a landmark exhibition held in 1970 in the main Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) building. During SGA, the work of 35 post-war artists based in the dynamic Kunststadt (art city) of Düsseldorf, several of them now canonical figures including Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, and Günther Uecker, transformed the college into a total work of art experience. At the invitation of Richard Demarco, instigator of SGA and Director of the Edinburgh Festival's visual arts programme, the Düsseldorfer Szene arrived in person, effectively staging a provocative takeover of ECA that grabbed the attention of the British press. Based on close archival research, Christian Weikop uncovers unknown and exciting narratives as well as artist networks, concerning this provocative 1970 exhibition held at ECA, taking into account for the first time the contributions of all 35 artists based in Düsseldorf, and incorporating testimony of individuals who were involved in this landmark exhibition, or who were later engaged in archive exhibitions or recreation projects. Weikop explores the formation of the exhibition in the context of a late 1960s culture of protests and occupations, and demonstrates that SGA was a pivotal Shock of the New moment that would leave its mark on art education. -- publisher's statement.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Strategy: Get Arts (SGA) was a landmark exhibition held in 1970 in the main Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) building. During SGA, the work of 35 post-war artists based in the dynamic Kunststadt (art city) of Düsseldorf, several of them now canonical figures including Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, and Günther Uecker, transformed the college into a total work of art experience. At the invitation of Richard Demarco, instigator of SGA and Director of the Edinburgh Festival's visual arts programme, the Düsseldorfer Szene arrived in person, effectively staging a provocative takeover of ECA that grabbed the attention of the British press. Based on close archival research, Christian Weikop uncovers unknown and exciting narratives as well as artist networks, concerning this provocative 1970 exhibition held at ECA, taking into account for the first time the contributions of all 35 artists based in Düsseldorf, and incorporating testimony of individuals who were involved in this landmark exhibition, or who were later engaged in archive exhibitions or recreation projects. Weikop explores the formation of the exhibition in the context of a late 1960s culture of protests and occupations, and demonstrates that SGA was a pivotal Shock of the New moment that would leave its mark on art education. -- publisher's statement.
Edinburgh International Festival (1970)
Photography, Artistic.
Art