Die Wahlverwandtschaften

Edited by Peter Pakesch

Claasen Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986
steirischer herbst 1986

As different as literature and visual arts may be, they are still relatives, which have created numerous forms of contact over time. "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" – elective affinities – approaches those contacts via essays and images.

With works by John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, Norbert Brunner, Günter Brus, Werner Büttner, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Francesco Clemente, Gilbert & George, Jenny Holzer, Ilja Kabakov, Per Kirkeby, Pierre Klossowski, Joseph Kossuth, Mario Merz, Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Naumann, Dieter Roth, Mariella Simoni, Jan Vercruysse, Franz West und Otto Zirko

With texts by Elechi Amadi, Alberto Boatto, Konrad Bayer, Elias Canetti, Raymond Carver, Daniil Charms, Joseph Conrad, Alain Cueff, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, Allen Ginsberg, Jenny Holzer, Per Kirkeby, Pierre Klossowski, Joseph Kosuth, Giacomo Leopardi, Thomas Mann, Mario Merz, Peter Pakesch, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Reinhard Priessnitz, Dieter Roth, Claude Royet-Journoud, August Ruhs, Johannes von Schlebrügge, Ferdinand Schmatz, William Shakespeare, Mariella Simoni, Daniel Walter, Franz West, Elisabeth Wiesmayr-Schlebrügge, Ludwig Wittgenstein und Denys Zacharopoulos