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Vienna's Actionist artists fete the body as their canvas
Published Tue, Mar 31, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Vienna
AS artists, they pushed the limits, bathing in blood, mud and urine. Vienna's famed "Actionists", whose avant-garde movement may be the most radical in contemporary art, are the focus of a new exhibition in their home city.
The movement emerged in the 1960s as part of the new performance-based art, which broke with the confines of traditional painting and used the body as both surface and site of art-making.
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