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NO!art

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NO!art is a radical avant-garde anti-art movement started in New York in 1959. Its founders sought to deliver a shock to the complacent consumerist society around them.[https://www.jstor.org/pss/1572298 NO-Art: An American Psycho-Social Phenomenon] Emanuel K. Schwartz and Reta Shacknove Schwartz, Leonardo, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1971), pp. 245-254 MIT Press

History

The movement was initiated by Boris Lurie, Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher who had come together to organise exhibitions at the March Gallery. They gave the name NO!Art to the movement on the occasion of their show at the Gallery Gertrude Stein. They set themselves against the contemporary trends in Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in art, and used their work to attack Fascism, racism and imperialism in politics.

The NO!art exhibitions bore titles such as the Doom Show, the Involvement Show, the No Show and the Vulgar Show. They were often scatological in theme with one exhibition, the 1964 No Sculptures/Shit Show featuring works resembling piles of excrement.[http://www.ep.tc/realist/54/15.html "Look--Ma ... No Sculpture"], The Realist, November 1964 The Holocaust was another recurrent theme and the artists sometime provocatively referred to their work as "Jew Art."Fletcher, Robert [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xkc87BoYoekC&q=no%21art&pg=PA22 Beyond resistance: the future of freedom p.31]

In his essay, “Bull by the Horns” art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote “NO!art reflects the mixture of crap and crime with which the mass media floods the mind of our time. It is Pop with venom added.”Rosenberg, Harold “Bull by the Horns.” 1974 cited in First and Final Refusal—Resurrecting Boris Lurie, the Original NO!art Man Ezra Glinter, Forward, July 14, 2010

Since 1999, The NO!art was led by Dietmar Kirves (headquarters Berlin), and Clayton Patterson (headquarters New York). Since 2024, after the loss of Dietmar Kirves ( headquarters east), the "headquarters east" is represented by LST, Lars Schubert, in Småland, Sweden.

Members

Members included:[http://www.no-art.info/_involvement/en.html NO!art Members], NO!art website. Accessed July 1, 2015.

References

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External sources

  • {{official website|https://no-art.info}}
  • Fletcher, Robert [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xkc87BoYoekC&q=no%21art&pg=PA22 Beyond resistance: the future of freedom (chapter 'No!art Negative Aesthetics as Resistance to the Art of Forgetting')]
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/arts/12lurie.html?_r=1 Boris Lurie, Leader of a Confrontational Art Movement, Dies at 83] Colin Moynihan, NY Times January 12, 2008
  • [http://www.forward.com/articles/129334/ First and Final Refusal - Resurrecting Boris Lurie, the Original NO!art Man] Ezra Glinter, Forward, July 14, 2010
  • [http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2005/01/boris_luries_noart_and_the_hol.html Boris Lurie's NO!art and the Holocaust] Jan Herman, Arts Journal Blog
  • [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1572298 NO-Art: An American Psycho-Social Phenomenon] Emanuel K. Schwartz and Reta Shacknove Schwartz, Leonardo, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1971), pp. 245–254 MIT Press
  • [http://www.artcat.com/exhibits/11558 ArtCat - Soho - Westwood Gallery - Boris Lurie: NO!art. An Exhibition of Early Work]

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category:American art movements

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