Title & Author:

Guy Debord and the situationist international : texts and documents / edited by Tom McDonough.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

xx, 492 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
"An October book."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : ideology and the Situationist utopia / Tom McDonough -- The long walk of the Situationist International / Greil Marcus -- The great sleep and its clients (1955) / Guy Debord -- One step back / Guy Debord -- Report on the construction of situations and on the terms of organization and action of the International Situationist Tendency (1957) / Guy Debord -- One more try if you want to be Situationists (the SI in and against decomposition) (1957) / Guy Debord -- Theses on cultural revolution (1958) / Guy Debord.
Contribution to the debate "is surrealism dead or alive?" (1958) / Guy Debord -- In praise of Pinot-Gallizio (1958) / Michele Bernstein -- Comments against urbanism (1961) / Raoul Vaneigem -- The Situationists and the new forms of action in politics or art (1963) / Guy Debord -- Perspectives for a generatrion (1966) / Theo Frey -- Captive words (preface to a Situationist dictionary) (1966) / Mustapha Khayati -- The Situationists and the new forms of action against politics and art (1967) / Rene Vienet -- Asger Jorn's avant-garde archives / Claire Gilman.
Architecture and play / Libero Andreotti -- Situationist space / Tom McDonough -- Lefebvre on the Situationists : an interview / Kristin Ross -- Angels of purity / Vincent Kauffman -- Difference and repetition : on Guy Debord's films / Giorgio Agamben -- Dismantling the spectacle : the cinema of Guy Debord / Thomas Y. Levin -- Spectacle, attention, counter-memory / Jonathan Crary -- Why art can't kill the Situationist International / T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Summary:

"This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that previously had been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI's profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of their time (1957-1972), with a strong argument for their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the group, T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262134047
9780262134040
0262633000 (pbk.)
9780262633000 (pbk.)

Subject:

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994.
Debord, Guy.
Internationale situationniste.
Situationistische Internationale
Radicalism.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Radicalisme.
Art 20e siècle.
radicalism.
Art, Modern.
Kunst
Situationisme.
Kunstenaarsgroepen.
Avant-garde.
20e siècle.
Art.
1900-1999

Form/genre:

Essays.
Bronnen (vorm)

Added entries:

McDonough, Tom, 1969-
United States Massachusetts Cambridge.
England London.
October book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320393
Call No.: 320393
Status: Available