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ALTERED MAN, 1963 ASSEMBLAGES, 1963 - 96 BLACK & WHITE, 1959 BOXES & SUITCASES, 1963 CANDLE WORKS, 1996 CHAIN WORKS, 1973 CURSE PAINTINGS, 1973 DISMEMBERED WOMEN, 1947 - 59 FEEL PAINTINGS, 1955 - 85 FIGURATIVE PAINTINGS, 1946 - 66

HARD WRITINGS, 1970 - 73 LITERAL PAINTINGS, 1969 LOVE SERIES, 1962 NO POSTERS, 1963 SATURATION PAINTINGS, 1959 - 63 SCULPTURES, 1964 - 90 VARIOUS WORKS, 1959 - 70 WORKS WITH NO, 1959 - 1969 MULTIPLES, 1962 - 97

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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.

■ 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 stone extrusion 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".

■ 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.

Published in: Lurie,Boris and Krim, Seymour (Eds), NO!art, Cologne 1988

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