Art & Politics: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

NO-ART

is anti worldmarket-investment art: (artworldmarket-investment art equals cultural manipulation).


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is against 'clinical', 'scientific' estheticisms: (such estheticisms are not art).


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is against the pyramiding of artworldmarket-investment-fashion-decorations ('minimal', 'color field', 'conceptual'): such games-decorations are the sleeping pills of culture. It is against "phantasy" in the service of the artmarket. No-art is against all artworldmarket 'salon' art.


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is anti Pop-art: (Pop-art is reactionary - it celebrates the glories of consumer society, and it mocks only at what the lower classes consume - the can of soup, the cheap shirt. Pop-art is chauvinistic. It sabotages and detracts from a social art for all.)


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is anti chauvinistic: (Domination by any national 'school' is based mainly on the size of investment capital available. Domination by any national 'school' is equivalent to cultural imperialism).


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is the crisis art of cultural suffocation.


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is socially relevant personal expression it is social art, it is protest art, it is political art, it is anti-art (anti artmarket art).


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naturally creates new esthetic forms or naturally operates within contemporary esthetic forms. Form (style) naturally derives from content, esthetic innovation is but a by-product of free unhampered expression. No-art abhors the 'clinical', 'scientific', pseudo-esthetic search for 'esthetic innovation'.


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opened up and influenced certain artworldmarket deviations for which it cannot be held responsible. It is at the misgrown root of artworldmarket Pop-art, of certain present day erotic-escapist, and horror-for-the-sake-of-horror work.


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influenced positively present day political art, underground press and underground films and comics, 'subversive' advertising in underground press, art (guerrilla) action groups, events of social content.


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fighting since 1959 from within the Lion's Mouth in New York City.


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ruthlessly suppressed and decimated but not eliminated or exterminated by artworldmarket suppression.


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from Pinups to Excrement: a social art rebellion. (Survey, book to be published soon).


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is 'programmatic', through theme shows and manifestations freely growing within co-operative group effort. Each show, manifestation, naturally pointing towards next activity.


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attempts to influence life through art and therefore calls for quick strategic artistic response.


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done from the gut, is not an artistic occupation.


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The time for Yes-art is not at all at hand.