{"product_id":"unter-dem-ladentisch","title":"Unter dem Ladentisch","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTogether with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Günter Brus was one of the founding members of Viennese Actionism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Brus himself during his exile in Berlin, \u003cem\u003eUnter dem Ladentisch\u003c\/em\u003e, literally translated as “under the counter”, documents the seminal happening \u003cem\u003eKUNST UND REVOLUTION\u003c\/em\u003e, which took place at the University of Vienna on June 7, 1968. Orchestrated by Peter Weibel as part of the student protests, the event was set out to challenge bourgeois taboos and institutional authority through extreme physical and verbal provocation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe action went down in Austrian art history as one of the most notorious performances of the period. Yet this publication goes beyond the event itself to document and examine its aftermath. Brus was sentenced to six months in prison and, to avoid incarceration, fled Austria with his wife, Anna, and their daughter, settling in West Berlin, where the publication was produced.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAssembling photographs, documentary material, drawings, newspaper clippings, police reports, xeroxed manuscripts, and texts by Brus, Oswald Wiener, Gerhard Rühm, Franz Kaltenbäck, Otmar Bauer, and others, \u003cem\u003eUnter dem Ladentisch\u003c\/em\u003e offers a vivid record of the \u003cem\u003eKUNST UND REVOLUTION\u003c\/em\u003e, protest and its consequences. Today, the publication is held in major museum collections, including the mumok in Vienna.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54847609536851,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4571.png?v=1788446127","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/unter-dem-ladentisch","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}