Harald Szeemann
Subtitle: selected writings
By: Harald Szeemann ; edited by Doris Chon, Glenn Phillips, and Pietro Rigolo ; translated by Jonathan Blower and Elizabeth Tucker
Contributors: Chon, Doris, editor; Phillips, Glenn, 1974- editor; Rigolo, Pietro, editor; Blower, Jonathan, translator; Tucker, Elizabeth, 1977- translator; Getty Research Institute
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781606065549
Subjects: Translations into English; Art criticism
Work titles: Works
Description: "Harald Szeemann : Selected Writings is an anthology of over seventy texts by Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) that brings the ideas of this important curator of twentieth-century art to an English-speaking readership for the first time."--ECIP Data View.
Notes: "This volume translates Harald Szeemann, Museum der Obsessionen (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1981), and Harald Szeemann, Individuelle Mythologien (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1985)"--Title page verso.

"[This volume] accompanies the exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions, held at the Getty Research Institute from 6 February 2018 to 6 May 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : My ray is my castle / Doris Chon, Glenn Phillip, and Pietro Rigolo; title: Part 1. Museum of Obsessions.; title: SPACESHIT; title: Identity kit; title: O joyful, O holy thematic exhibition; title: Culture cake Frau as folio; title: The First International Perfume Exhibition; title: Pullups from Luepolis; title: Dossier G. P.; title: When attitudes become form; title: How does an exhibition come into being?; title: Foreword to the documenta 1972 catalog; title: Look back almost without anger : interview by Pietra Kipphof; title: Individual mythologies; title: Grandfather : a pioneer like us; title: A rewarding retreat into the private realm; title: The Museum of Obsessions : proposal for an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin; title: The Agentur für geistige Gastarbeit in the service of the vision for a Museum of Obsessions; title: Museum of Obsessions; title: Bachelor machines; title: A bachelor's obsession, and what it has cost him; title: The Museum of Obsessions : suggestions for a future documenta; title: A correspondence; title: Monte Verità, Mountain of Truth; title: Truth has many breasts : a conversation with Theo Kneubühler; title: Tendency toward the Gesamtkunstwerk; title: Part 2. Individual mythologies. Collision + Harmony (prayer) : the honors pertaining to the profession of curating for the 1980s looking toward the year 2000; title: In the Jardin d'amour : letter to James Ensor; title: Anselm Kiefer, Parsifal, 1973; title: Halos in the firmament of pictures : on Sigmar Polke; title: East/Wes t: where do you stand? : on Jörg Immendorff; title: Immendorff at the crossroads; title: Étienne-Martin; title: Étienne-Martin : "that remains quite mysterious to me"; title: Colossus in motion : Guy Harloff; title: "Pathological processes often, and often only, show us enlarged images of normal conditions" : (Otto Gross, 1907); title: No catastrophe without an idyll, no idyll without a catastrophe; title: Adolf Wölfli; title: (Dis)Ordered world picture : can the mentally ill be artists?; title: Untitled : text for the one-man performance The new city, 1956; title: Emma Kunz : Swiss primal mud, Swiss mysticism of light; title: A new museum in Lausanne : the Collection de l'Art Brut; title: A mystic always goes against the grain; title: Not once in his evil was he original : the destruction of art in the Third Reich; title: Thanks owed to Paul Thek; title: Conversation with Paul Thek : Duisburg, 12 December 1973; title: Ex voto; title: On the exhibition Ex voto; title: The discrete charm of the bourgeoisie : the Necropolis of Staglieno; title: Bruno Müller; title: Piotr Kowalski, technician or artist?; title: George Sugarman; title: Exploring myths by video; title: Outline : length x width x height x depth + 150 arches. Bern's Münstergasse, the most autonomous street in Bern; title: Mentality space=Climate; title: Dieter Roth, Gobelin (Bertorelli B) 1974-76; title: Exhibition making; title: Poem for Johannes Cladders; title: Conversation with Cathérine Millet; title: Energy amalgam litany; title: Plates; title: Part 3. From vision to nail : writings 1986-2003. Giant sketch for a future hope; title: Freedom in patience : mystical traces in the work of Wolfgang Laib; title: Mario Merz; title: Timeless [Zeitlos]; title: A visit to Weinrebenpark is like a breath of fresh air; title: Piet Mondrian on Monte Verità; title: To stage is to love; title: The outside sets the scale, the inside determines the form; title: Conversation : for Franz West (Indirectly); title: Joseph Beuys : the Heat time machine; title: Museum of Obsessions : interview with Gerhard Theewen; title: Tatlin's tower for Marx-Engels-Platz; title: The other [L'autre]; title: Beware of exiting your dreams : you may find yourself in somebody else's; title: The gallantry of extremism; title: Preface to Chen Zen : invocation of washing fire; title: Making things possible : a conversation with Harald Szeemann (interview by Beti Žerovc).