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The iconoclastic work of the Vienna Action Group is now more contemporary than ever before, and THE ART OF DESTRUCTION provides a comprehensive introduction to that work in both film and performance. Fully illustrated and annotated, and including an extensive filmography, this is a book of compelling interest to all students of film, art and performance, and for all readers engaged with questioning social and corporate cultures.

From the narrow alleyways of the Golden Gai to the flashing ads and jumbotrons of Shibuya street crossings to the skyscrapers of Shinjuku and the cartoon billboards of the Akiba, Tokyo is an intensely visual and mesmerizing city. This work gives an account of Tokyo's urban sensations.

Built in 1898 to treat victims of tuberculosis from the German capital, the sanatorium-turned-military-hospital of Beelitz Heilstatten outside of Berlin is now a site of pilgrimage for photographers, ghost hunters, and intrepid pornographers. This book features photographs that capture the derelict splendor of Beelitz Heilstatten.

Berlin's unique history of conflict, violence, and transformation has created an arena of extraordinary urban surfaces, from which the this day city and its layered, wounded past are projected simultaneously. This title explores the intimate connections between those surfaces and the works of art and film.