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Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)

Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)

Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)

$19.95

Debord, Guy

Pap. New York, 2006

Book ID: 78602

This volume traces the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movementa cultural avant-garde that continues to inspire new generations of artists, theorists, and writers more than half a century later. Debord's letterspublished here for the first time in Englishprovide a fascinating insider's view of just how this seemingly disorganized group drifting around a newly consumerized Paris became one of the most defining cultural movements of the twentieth century. Circumstances, personalities, and ambitions all come into play as the group develops its strategy of anarchic, conceptual, but highly political "intervention."

360 pp.