This documentary book closely looks at the dissolution of the boundaries between the arts, and the accompanying decentralisation of art developments. There was a wide-ranging sense of cultural change and renewal: not in New York, but at the ‘end of the world’ around San Francisco bay, where the conventions of a work-oriented post-war modernism were broken.

 Dissolving the boundaries not only engendered a politically informed counterculture, but also led to new amalgams of theatre, the visual arts, dance, literature, music and film. This situation produced new experiments by artists who were to be a major influence on international art developments from the 1960s onwards.

This book (accompanying the exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne) examines the work of a diverse range of cultural figures, from Allen Ginsberg to Anna Halprin; Bruce Nauman to Tom Wolfe; and Terry Riley to Robert Crumb.

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Pulisher: Walther König

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