Art and Revolution
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The "Kunst und Revolution" (Art and Revolution) was a "lecture" by Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Valie Export, Peter Weibel and Oswald Wiener which took place on June 7 1968 at the University of Vienna. The performance featured excretion, vomiting, and masturbation. It resulted in arrests, psychological examinations, and jail sentences for the artists. Günter Brus was sentenced to 6 months in prison after the "Kunst und Revolution" event at the University of Vienna on June 7 1968, fled to Berlin with his family and returned to Austria in 1976. Günter Brus later commented that aside from Austria, only Franco's Spain and the Eastern Bloc had such negative attitudes towards progressive art.
See also
- Viennese Actionism
- The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution
- Art and politics
- Political art
