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In Advance of the Broken Image: Gerhard Richter and Gustav Metzger’s Confrontations with Nazi Criminality Larissa Allwork In Final Solution: The Fate of Jews 1933–1949 (2016), archive photographs of the Nazi perpetrators, local collaborators and their victims preserved in The Wiener Library, Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial
Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was a German artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966. Metzger was recognised for his protests in the political and artistic realms.
Nov 26, 2019 · This chapter focuses on Gerhard Richter’s Uncle Rudi (1965) and Mr Heyde (1965) and Gustav Metzger’s Historic Photographs series (1995–1998) in order to present a new interpretation of how these artists perform the photograph in order to provoke...
- Larissa Allwork
- L.Allwork@derby.ac.uk
- 2019
Rejecting Holocaust representational pieties in favour of the reinterpretation of the Duchampian ‘Readymade’ in the case of Richter, and Dada’s anti-aesthetics of destruction and revulsion in Metzger’s, this chapter will argue that Richter’s oblique pose of the ‘anti-ideological artist’ and Metzger’s more overt performance of ...
Mar 10, 2017 · Gustav Metzger demonstrates his 'Auto-Destructive Art' at the South Bank, London, 3rd July 1961. Metger paints using a spray gun and hydrochloric acid on three nylon sheets, which begin to ...
Looking back today, it’s clear that subsequent shows of Metzger’s works, as at dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, have almost turned on its head Metzger’s image as a political artist and activist. In Kassel, there were numerous vitrine tables containing relatively conventional drawings and oil sketches from his student days.
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Aug 16, 2021 · His best-known innovation was what he called “auto-destructive art”, works that decayed as a direct result of their making. The artist photographed by by Ida Kar in 1962 © Ida Kar/National ...
