One of performance art's most controversial figures, Hermann Nitsch is also one of the world's most fascinating and vital living artists. As the leader of a movement that has come to be known as Viennese Actionism, Nitsch explores human nature's most primitive instincts through multi-day rituals of live theater, animal sacrifice and haunting music. Nude students, bound and blindfolded, receive washes of pigs' blood and offerings of mutilated animal carcasses as enormous white canvases capture
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