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NO!art
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juncture where
artistic production
and socio-cultural
action meet.

Stuetzpunkt
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NO!manipulation

ESTHETIC, PROCEDURAL, MATERIAL INNOVATIONS [1970]

Work, actions emphasized content not form, nevertheless new procedures, materials came about as by-products of expression:

■  SATURATION PROCESS: application of painting, collage, variety
of acts and projections, often unrelated in content; until work
saturated, filled-up, finished.
■  FLOOR PIECES: Involvement Show, Doom Show, Shit Show,
floor sculpture, assemblages.
■  FIRE: burning candles, “Eichmann Triptych”.
■  TRANSFER PERISHABLE INTO UNPERISHABLE: printed
material into white lead paint like in “Multiplications” and others.
Also “Death Sculpture”, chicken heads cast in plastic.
■  STAMPING: "NO! stamps", "NO! stencils".
■  EARTH-SAND WRITING: letters "NO" written in earth,
then cast in aluminum.
■  COLLECTIVIZATION, DE-INDIVIDUALIZATION: another artist
finishing work by original author, adding or altering it; also
collective work on same object.
■  DEAD ANIMALS: chicken-heads encased in plastic-"Death
sculpture".
■  SYSTEMIC: "NO! Sculptures" (Shit-sculptures).
■  ALTERED PHOTOS: "Adolf Hitler: Happening 1945", "Altered
Man"-Series.
■  ALTERED SIGNS-WORDS CREATED DIFFERENT
MEANINGS: "...UCK", etc.
■  MANIFESTS: "Village Voice", "Involvement Show Brochure",
"Anti-Pop Statement" , etc.
■  SOCIOLOGICAL ART: "American Way of Death"-Show.
■  TORN PAINTING-COLLAGES
■  SURGICAL GRAFTING: bodily features displaced, altered,
interchanged.
■  CONCEPTUAL: "NO", "Critic's Chair", "Luncheonette Menu",
"Liberty or Death".
■  PHYSICAL DESHAPING: heat, weight, extrusion.
Plastic sculptures, car-squashed metal objects; liquid plaster
stoneextrusion via plastic gut: Shit sculptures.
■  MULTIPLICATION OF SIMILAR IMAGES:
"Multiplication"-paintings.
■  MANUFACTURING: mechanically torn, chopped pinups, cast,
manufactured into collage-cardboards, captured in molten wax.
■  MACHINE-MADE OBJECTS, UNALTERED: printing press waste
sheets with uniform silver over-printing, "NO! –Posters".
■  RECYCLING: "NO!-Posters".
■  EXPLANATORY STATEMENT – EQUIVALENT EXHIBITION
ELEMENT: "Anti-Pop" stenciled statements.
■  POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION PIECES: painted car, masks
at Peace Demonstrations.
■  CEILING HUNG, SUSPENDED SCULPTURES –
ASSEMBLAGES: Bomb and Snake", "Rope Object".

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