Art and revolution
Subtitle: transversal activism in the long twentieth century
By: Gerald Raunig ; translated by Aileen Derieg.
Series: Semiotext(e) active agents series
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781584350460
Subjects: Arts and revolutions; Arts -- Political aspects; Arts, Modern -- 20th century
Description: Extending the postculturalist theory of revolution to the nexus of art and activism, Gerald Raunig explores cultural legacy of activism in the 20th century.
Notes: Originally published: Kunst und revoluntion. Wien: Turia+Kant, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: The three components of the revolutionary machine; title: Out of sync: the Paris commune as revolutionary machine; title: The Courbet model. Sequential concatenation: artist, revolutionary, artist; title: Spirit and betrayal: German "activism" in the 1910s; title: Disruptive monsters: from representing to constructing situations; title: "Art and revolution," 1968: Viennese Actionism and the negative concatenation; title: The transversal concatenation of the PublixTheatreCaravan: temporary overlaps of art and revolution; title: After 9/11: postscript on an immeasurable border space.