GAAG, The Guerrilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976, A Selection
by Hendricks, Jon; Toche, Jean; Van Raay, Jan (Photographer)
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About This Item
New York: Printed Matter, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Unpaginated, ca. 200 pp, extensively illustrated with photos and facsimiles. Mild creasing to spine; binding sound, text clean. Publisher's description of the 2011 reprint edition: "The book serves as the primary text to the significant work of the activist artist group GAAG (Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, Silvianna, Joanne Stamerra, Virginia Toche and Jean Toche), both as a document of the group 's ideological and logistical concerns, and more broadly as a historical record for 52 of the many political art actions they carried out through the late Sixties and early Seventies. Guided by their belief that art and culture had been corrupted by profit and private interest, GAAG formed in October 1969 as a platform for social struggle. Their work asked how artists could work effectively towards meaningful change, most often through direct provocation and confrontation symbolic, non-violent actions staged in protest and ridicule of the ethical failures by the art and media establishments, as well as the US government. Their activities defied the brutal, close-minded workings of an artistic/political system that traded in dirty money, served the elite, established a trivial cultural canon, and perpetuated bloody wars abroad. GAAG: The Guerrilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976: A Selection collects the manifestos, letters and press communiqués issued by the group (to Nixon, Hoover, The Secretary of Defense, Museum officials, and others). Their missives are printed as facsimiles, alongside other print material, including handwritten expenses, and related documents, that stand as statements of purpose and protest. Photographers Ka Kwong Hui, Joanne Stamerra, Jan Van Raay and others were often on hand as many of the actions unfolded, offering a remarkable and candid visual history to the group s activities and confrontations GAAG: The Guerrilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976: A Selection is a tremendous resource on the important work of the group, providing insight into social action and political art activities with lasting implications. The book stands both as a historical documentation as well as a model for contemporary and future critique and practice.
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- Bookseller
- Walkabout Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23333
- Title
- GAAG, The Guerrilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976, A Selection
- Author
- Hendricks, Jon; Toche, Jean; Van Raay, Jan (Photographer)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed Matter
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and Design;
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