Search Results: Authors starting with I from Tim Byers Art Books

Cologne., 1968 - 1975.. 12 volumes. Original publisher's printed wrappers.. (29.5 x 21 cm; issues 9 & 10: 21 x 15 cm).. Complete set of the seminal magazine Interfunktionen. Twelve issues over seven years may not appear to be a particularly impressive output, but it is difficult to overemphasise the influence and significance of Interfunktionen during and after its brief existence. Dissenting from the new 'art-as-commodity' attitude expressed at Arnold Bode’s documenta 4, Interfunktionen magazine, edited by Fritz Heubach in Cologne, was an interdisciplinary effort among activist artists to promote European art and ideas without bowing to the era’s increasingly commercial trends. In the summer of 1968 the opening of Documenta 4 had come under public attack for a conventional, market-driven agenda that was felt to represent inadequately the art of the '60s. With the exception of some environments neither space nor money was available for new media: an event involving performance and sound art,… Read More