Armando Shaping Memory

by Alphen, Ernst Van

• ISBN13: 9789056621735
• ISBN10: 9056621734
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

For almost fifty years the Dutch multimedia artist and author Armando has been presenting his poems, prose, paintings, sculpture, film, theatre and musical performances to an ever-intrigued public. In the 50s and 60s Armando was involved with experimental literary magazines and innovative movements in the visual arts. In 1979 he moved to Berlin, where his art became increasingly preoccupied with the Second World War, and since then both his literary and visual works have been read as autobiographical, relating to a youth spent under German occupation. In Armando: Shaping Memory, art and comparative literature scholar Ernst van Alphen undertakes an expansive and revelatory exegesis of Armando's multidisciplinary work. Treating the artist's oeuvre as an indivisible whole, van Alphen shows how Armando's themes of faltering memory and the passage of time find entirely different expressions in each discipline. Beautifully and intelligently presented in both text and image, Armando: Shaping Memoryis a comprehensive look at the artist that places his work in an art-historical and literary context.

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(3)
Shaping memory	7	(26)
Paint confronts the painting	33	(48)
The ravages of time: on Armando's bronzes	81	(24)
Pencil confronts paper: on Armando's drawings	105	(40)
The artist as perpetrator	145	(18)
The ``landscapic,'' or the struggle against composition and representation	163	(30)
A master of amazement: Armando's self-chosen exile	193	(16)
List of works	209	(6)
Biography	215	(3)
Exhibitions	218	(2)
Bibliography	220	(20)
Colophon	240