NO!art

NO!art is a radical avant-garde anti-art movement started in New York in 1959. Its founders sought to deliver a shock to the complacent consumerist society around them.^[1]

The movement was initiated by

Pop Art in art, and used their work to attack Fascism, racism and imperialism

in politics.

The NO!art exhibitions bore titles such as the Doom Show, the Involvement Show, the No Show and the Vulgar Show. They were often scatological in theme with one exhibition, the 1964 No Sculptures/Shit Show featuring works resembling piles of excrement.

Holocaust was another recurrent theme and the artists sometime provocatively referred to their work as "Jew Art."^[3]

In his essay, “Bull by the Horns” art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote “NO!art reflects the mixture of crap and crime with which the mass media floods the mind of our time. It is Pop with venom added.”^[4]

Since 1999, The NO!art is led by Dietmar Kirves (headquarters Berlin), and Clayton Patterson (headquarters New York). Members are

Bruno Schleinstein, Dominik Stahlberg, Michelle Stuart, Aldo Tambellini, Seth Tobocman, Jean Toche, Toyo Tsuchiya, Wolf Vostell, Friedrich Wall, Mathilda Wolf, Natalia E. Woytasik, Miron Zownir.^[5]

References

^ NO-Art: An American Psycho-Social Phenomenon Emanuel K. Schwartz and Reta Shacknove Schwartz, Leonardo, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1971), pp. 245-254 MIT Press
^ "Look--Ma ... No Sculpture", The Realist, November 1964
^ Fletcher, Robert Beyond resistance: the future of freedom p.31
^ Rosenberg, Harold “Bull by the Horns.” 1974 cited in First and Final Refusal—Resurrecting Boris Lurie, the Original NO!art Man Ezra Glinter, Forward, July 14, 2010
^ NO!art Members, NO!art website. Accessed July 1, 2015.

External sources

Official website
Fletcher, Robert Beyond resistance: the future of freedom (chapter 'No!art Negative Aesthetics as Resistance to the Art of Forgetting')
Boris Lurie, Leader of a Confrontational Art Movement, Dies at 83 Colin Moynihan, NY Times January 12, 2008
First and Final Refusal - Resurrecting Boris Lurie, the Original NO!art Man Ezra Glinter, Forward, July 14, 2010
Boris Lurie's NO!art and the Holocaust Jan Herman, Arts Journal Blog
NO-Art: An American Psycho-Social Phenomenon Emanuel K. Schwartz and Reta Shacknove Schwartz, Leonardo, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1971), pp. 245–254 MIT Press
ArtCat - Soho - Westwood Gallery - Boris Lurie: NO!art. An Exhibition of Early Work

[1] NO-Art: An American Psycho-Social Phenomenon Emanuel K. Schwartz and Reta Shacknove Schwartz, Leonardo, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1971), pp. 245-254 MIT Press

[2] "Look--Ma ... No Sculpture", The Realist, November 1964

[3] Fletcher, Robert Beyond resistance: the future of freedom p.31

[4] Rosenberg, Harold “Bull by the Horns.” 1974 cited in First and Final Refusal—Resurrecting Boris Lurie, the Original NO!art Man Ezra Glinter, Forward, July 14, 2010

[5] NO!art Members, NO!art website. Accessed July 1, 2015.

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