The beautiful language of my century : reinventing the language of contestation in postwar France, 1945-1968 / Tom McDonough.

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McDonough, Tom, 1969-

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The beautiful language of my century : reinventing the language of contestation in postwar France, 1945-1968 / Tom McDonough.

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Description:

273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"October books."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The language of negation -- 1961: Algeria and the politics of Décollage -- The reciprocal readymade, or, art on the barricades -- Killing property: on festival and revolutionary nihilism -- No ghost.

Summary:

""The Beautiful Language of My Century" describes the various forms of critical culture that culminated in the events of May 1968, and investigates the ways those forms have come down to us today." "McDonough explores the montage practice developed by Guy Debord and his situationist colleagues under the name of detournement and its expression in the later fifties as a form of cultural theft. He addresses the influence of colonialism on these practices, examining a 1961 exhibit of torn posters of the Algerian War ("La France dechiree"), Godard's early film Le Petit Soldat, and Christo's Project for a Temporary Wall of Steel Drums. He discusses the French left's adoption in the mid-sixties of the "end of art" as a theoretical position and describes the leftist idea of the fete as a Rabelaisian and revolutionary upwelling of everything that is low."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780262134774 (alk. paper)
0262134772 (alk. paper)
9780262516099
0262516098

Subject:

Cultural policy
Intellectual life
Politics and government
Geistesleben
Geschichte
Kultur
Kunst
Protestbewegung
France Intellectual life 20th century.
France Cultural policy History 20th century.
France Politics and government 1945-
Frankreich Kunst Geschichte Geschichte 1945-1968.
France Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
France Politique et gouvernement 1945-
France Politique culturelle Histoire 20e siècle.
France
Frankreich
France Cultural policy 20th century
1945-1968

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History

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Location: Library main 274381
Call No.: BIB 208106
Status: Available

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