Facsimile edition of a lecture transcript given by German-born artist Gustav Metzger at the Architectural Association in February 1965.

Die Monografie widmet sich zum ersten Mal umfassend dem Gesamtwerk des Künstlers und berücksichtigt dabei auch jüngere Arbeiten wie seine Serie Historic Photographs, die in einem direkten Bezug zur Biografie des Holocaust-Überlebenden Gustav Metzger stehen. Eine detaillierte Chronologie verortet die Aktivitäten des Künstlers im historischen und politischen Kontext ihrer Entstehung. Dadurch wird Metzger erstmals nicht nur als Künstler, sondern auch als Aktivist gewürdigt.

This is the catalogue of the first extensive overview of Gustav Metzger organized in 2015-2016 at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun and Kunsthall Oslo and Stiftelsen Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.

Notorious "guitar trasher" Pete Townshend (of the legendary rock band The Who) refers to Gustav Metzger as his teacher-due mainly to the artist/activist's continued reaction to the threat posed by the global nuclear arms race, which he has also opposed politically since 1956. Born the son of Orthodox Jews, Metzger survived the Holocaust through salvation by the Refugee-Children-Movement in England, and, since the 1990s, has worked on a series of Historical Photographs based on his past. Based in topical political, economic, and social themes, Metzger's manifestos, concepts, and demonstrations often thematize the 20th century's destructive potential, and also address the capitalist system and the art industry.