"Tracing the history, ideas and influences of the Situationist International, from dada to postmodernism, this book illustrates how situationist ideas continue to inform political events, cultural movements and theoretical debates of our times"--Publisher description.
This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the spectacle continue to in…
The first sustained analysis of historical exoticism in the nineteenth century.
Perhaps the first significant incursion into the intricate nexus of politics and culture by the surrealists was at the infamous Saint-Pol-Roux banquet of July 2nd, 1925. The surrealists used the occasion to agitate against Franco-Spanish intervention in Morocco. This volume expl…