Collaborations: Artist groups, collaborative work and Connectedness in contemporary art and the Avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s.

Exploring the power of collaboration in the postwar avant-garde and beyond

Drawing on avant-garde movements of the 1960s and 1970s as well as conceptual and sociological approaches in contemporary art, Collaborations examines diverse strategies of collective authorship in artmaking. The book also investigates how the collaborative models identified can be cultivated on a broader social level. Also highlighting examples from the 21st century, Collaborations calls into question the shifting dynamics of collaboration in the face of rapidly dissolving fundamental social structures. Artists include: Art & Language, Marina Abramovic & Ulay, Anna & Bernhard Johannes Blume, George Brecht, Phil Collins, Die Damen, Robert Filliou, Rimma & Valeriy Gerlovin, Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton & Dieter Roth, Haus-Rucker-Co, Irwin, On Kawara, Alison Knowles, Louise Lawler, Lucy R. Lippard, George Maciunas, Ree Morton, Yoko Ono, Stephen Prina, Daniel Spoerri, Franz Erhard Walther and Wiener Gruppe.