
‘Auto-destructive art is a comprehensive theory for action in the field of the plastic arts in the post-second world war period. The action is not limited to theory of art and the production of art works. It includes social action. Auto-destructive art is committed to a left-wing revolutionary position in politics, and to struggles against future wars.’ Gustav Metzger, in Auto-Destructive Art: Metzger at AA.
This book is a transcript of a lecture given by artist Gustav Metzger at the Architectural Association in February 1965. Originally printed in June that year by the AA’s Action Communications Centre (ACC), this new facsimile edition is published 50 years on, reigniting Metzger’s urgent and ever-relevant arguments which confront society’s obsession with destruction and the detrimental effects of machinery on human life.
9781907414503, 2015
29.7 × 21cm, illustrated, 40pp, paperback

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