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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781838382209

RRP: £40.00

PAGES: 232

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 30, 2021

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Strategy: Get Arts: 35 Artists Who Broke the Rules

Christian Weikop

Based on close archival research, Christian Weikop uncovers unknown and exciting narratives, as well as artist networks, concerning this provocative 1970 exhibition, held at ECA. The author has previously considered the British press reception of SGA in an article for Tate Papers, but this Studies in Photography-EUP book publication goes far beyond that article and any other scholarship on the exhibition by taking into account the contributions of all 35 artists based in Düsseldorf, and incorporating testimony of individuals who were involved in this landmark exhibition, or who were later engaged in archive exhibitions or recreation projects. Weikop explores the formation of the exhibition in the context of a late 1960s culture of protests and occupations, and demonstrates that SGA was a pivotal ‘Shock of the New’ moment that would leave its mark on art education.

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Christian Weikop

Dr Christian Weikop is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary German Art at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), University of Edinburgh. Much of his published research has focused on Expressionism and Dada, as well as prominent German artists of the post-1945 era, especially Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Joseph Beuys. He has written and edited publications on these artists for Tate, the Royal Academy London, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, and the Burlington Magazine. Additionally, he has worked on publications for the Kunsthalle Mannheim, the Kirchner Museum in Davos, National Galleries of Scotland, the Neue Galerie in New York, Harvard University, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as writing and presenting a critically acclaimed BBC Radio 3 documentary on Wassily Kandinsky. He has organised several high profile international conferences on subjects ranging from August Sander to Degenerate Art, and is also Series Editor of German Visual Culture for Peter Lang, publishing a number of books in this exciting series.