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Broken Music: Artist's Recordworks Ursula Block & Michael Glasmeier (Editors)

Artists

Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier

Date

1989

Publisher

DAAD

Format

Artists' Books

Size

21 × 26 × 2.5 cm

Length

278 

Description

Softcover, b/w and colour illustrations, French, German, and English texts. Flexidisk included on custom first page.

Broken Music: Artists’ Recordworks is an etensive exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1992 at the Daadgalerie, Berlin; the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; and the Magasin, Grenoble. The most complete discography of recordings by visual artists and experimental audioworks available, with a flexidisk by Milan Knizak. Broken Music: Artists’ Recordworks lists works of visual artists created with and for the medium of the record, selected by four criteria: “record covers, which are original works by visual artists, or which have been made after the design of a visual artist ; Records with object-character, sculptures which utilize records artistically and sculptures in which records serve the function of a plastic material ; exhibition catalogues and books, which contain a record for additional information ; records, which have sound by visual artists.” — introduction to the compendium. The compendium of artists’ recordworks is accompanied by black-and-white and color photographs of related installations, artworks, and performances. Includes chronology and bibliography.

Documenting audio works by hundreds of artists, including Vito Acconci, albrecht d., Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Hennig Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Kní¿ák, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Anna Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Philips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, selten gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Emmett Williams, Z’ev, Sylvia Ziranek, and others.

Texts by René Block, Ursula Bloc

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