This 350-page English/Czech large format full-color monograph, with an abundance of photographs of performances and situational posters by the multi-faceted artist Milan Kohout, covers nearly 40 years of his artistic output. Immerse yourself in his work from the heady days during the early phases of Kohout’s underground activities, through the era of his signing Charter 77, his forced expulsion from Czechslovakia, his stay in a refugee camp, his political asylum in the United States, his study of art there, and his participation in a whole series of art festivals around the globe, through the phase when he taught art at various colleges in Boston. Essays by fellow artists, performers, art educators, and an art historian, each of whom views the quality of Kohout’s works from a different angle, introduce the volume. An essay by Milan Kohout will allow you to make sense of the mystery of a performance art that is connected with the everyday politics affecting all of us living in the ceaseless but nevertheless futile attempt to create an ideal social system. This complex monograph reveals the motivations of an artist who throws himself into battling windmills with the unceasing hope that one day their vanes will catch the righteous winds of change.
