Valie Export: Time and Countertime

by Yilmaz Dziewior and Elke Krasny

Having quickly tired of life as an editor and extra in the Austrian film industry, in 1967 Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to Valie Export and plunged into the violent and often blood-soaked world of Viennese performance art and the extremist "Actions" of Hermann Nitsch, G?nter Brus, Otto M?hl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Like them, Export subjected her body to pain, but where their work was inevitably drawn towards a religious idea of catharsis,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865608744
• ISBN13: 9783865608741
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.7" x 12.7"