{"product_id":"helmut-schweizer-handlungen-actions-steffen-siegel","title":"Handlungen - Actions \/ Helmut Schweizer","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"323\"\u003eBetween 1970 and 1976, Helmut Schweizer developed his photographic series\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"86\"\u003eHandlungen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003cem data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"97\"\u003eActions\u003c\/em\u003e). Across more than one hundred three-part tableaux, the artist stages everyday situations—often surprising, at times subtly absurd.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"242\"\u003eHandlungen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estands as one of the key contributions to conceptual photography of the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"844\"\u003eFive decades after its creation, the series is published here in its entirety for the first time. The book draws on a comprehensive study of the artist’s archive, revealing a body of work that is both conceptually rigorous and visually distinctive. An extensive essay by editor Steffen Siegel offers an in-depth reading of the series and foregrounds Schweizer’s political concern: how can the relationship between humans and nature be rethought beyond the hierarchies of subject and object, domination and submission?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"846\" data-end=\"1030\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eHelmut Schweizer lives and works as a visual artist in Düsseldorf. Steffen Siegel is Professor of the Theory and History of Photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages 220, 19 x 34 cm\u003cbr\u003eApril 2026, Spector Books\u003cbr\u003een\/all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spector Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53645060899159,"sku":"9783959059541","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0995\/6025\/9927\/files\/9783959059541.jpg?v=1779792784","url":"https:\/\/corpusbookshop.com\/products\/helmut-schweizer-handlungen-actions-steffen-siegel","provider":"corpus bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}