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Book cover of Was ist Kunst, IRWIN?: HMKV 2023/2, with a group of men in suits, holding stuffed animals. Published by Verlag Kettler.

Was ist Kunst, IRWIN?

HMKV 2023/2

By (author) Inke Arns
By (author) Thibaut de Ruyter

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  • Published to mark the 40th anniversary of the Slovenian artists’ collective
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This volume is published to mark the 40th anniversary of the artists’ collective Rrose Irwin Sélavy and to accompany the exhibition at HMKV Dortmund. Since 1983, IRWIN has been investigating the art history of Eastern Europe, especially the ambivalent legacy of the historical avant-garde and its totalitarian successors, i.e. the dialectic of avant-garde and totalitarianism. Since the 1990s, the focus of the group has been on challenging the art history of “Western Modernism” in a critical and iconoclastic way. The artists playfully and darkly contrast it with the “retro avant-garde” and an “Eastern Modernism”.

The book, which can be read from both sides, is made up of two parts: the first chapter explores the black humour that is a consistent element in IRWIN’s work. The second chapter examines issues relating to the state – and how IRWIN uses them to comment on current topics such as migration.

Text in English and German.

Specifications
Publisher
Verlag Kettler
ISBN
9783987410871
Published
16th Apr 2024
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World excluding Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Size
240 mm x 170 mm
Pages
286 Pages
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