Viennese Actionism, 1960-1965 & From Action Painting to Actionism, Vienna 1960-1971 [signed] [first edition]

"Interior pages are in excellent fine condition. The covers are very good with minor rubbing. Volume 2 has a fold in the top right corner of the cover. First edition. 367 & 392 pages. 9 1/2 x 7 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches overall. Signed and inscribed by Gunter Brus on title page of volume 2. Two volumes. Essays in German and English. Heavily illustrated. Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Kunstmuseum Winterthur und Scottish National Gallery of Modem Art, Edinburgh (Hrsg .) Gunter Brus, Adolf Frohner, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Alfons Schilling Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Viennese Actionism was a short and violent movement in 20th-century art. It can be regarded as part of the many independent efforts of the 1960s to develop "action art" (Fluxus, happening, performance art, body art, etc.). Its main participants were Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. As "actionists", they were active between 1960 and 1971. Most have continued their artistic work independently from the early 1970s onwards.