L'Interna­tionale. Post-War Avant-Gardes Between 1957 and 1986

Post-War Avant-Gardes Between 1957 and 1986
416 pages, 2015
Edited by Christian Höller


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Chapters:



  • Museum of Parallel Narratives, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona (2011)
  • Museum of Affects, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (2011 / 12)
  • Prologue: L'Internationale
  • Writing History Without a Prior Canon
  • Histories and Their Different Narrators
  • Approaching Art through Ensembles
  • An Exercise in Affects
  • What if the Universe Started Here and Elsewhere
  • Age of Change
  • Connect Whom? Connect What? Why Connect? The World System after 1945
  • Recycling the R-waste (R is for Revolution)
  • Art as Mousetrap: The Case of Laibach
  • Should Ilya Kabakov Be Awakened?
  • Forgotten in the Folds of History
  • Is Spain Really Different?
  • KwieKulik / Form is a Fact of Society
  • Július Koller / Dialectics of Self-Identification
  • Gorgona / Beyond Aesthetic Reality
  • OHO / A n Experimental Microcosm on the Edge of East and West
  • Jef Geys and Marinus Boezem / Taking Care of the Frame
  • Paul De Vree and Toon Tersas / Hysteria Makes History
  • Grup de Treball and Vídeo-Nou / Two Collective Projects in 1970s Spain
  • Retroavantgarde
  • "A HugeAmusement-Park Exhibition" / Vision in Motion (1959)
  • Overcoming Alienation / New Tendencies (1961–1973)
  • The Furor of the Festival / Los Encuentros de Pamplona (1972)
  • The Avant-Garde, Sots-Art and the Bulldozer Exhibition of 1974
  • Works and Words (1979) in the Shadow of I AM (1978)
  • A European Institutional Effort / Art in Europe after '68 (1980) and Chambres d'Amis (1986)
  • Southern–Eastern Contact Zones
  • From the International to the Cosmopolitan
  • "Global" Art
  • Spirits of Internationalism, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen