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Title: The Situationists and the City
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Reader
Author: Tom McDonough
Contributor: Tom McDonough (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1844673642
EAN: 9781844673643
ISBN: 9781844673643
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Architecture & Antiques
Release Date: 12/01/2010
Description: The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Internationale Situationniste that included many incendiary texts on politics and art, and were a galvanizing force in the revolutions of May 1968. The importance of their work has been felt particularly in their revolutionary analysis of cities. The SI were responsible for utopian imaginings of the city, where its alienating effects from its routine use as a site of consumption and work were banished and it was instead to be turned into a place of play. Tom McDonough collects all the SI's key work in this area for an essential one-stop collection. Including such essential works as 'The Theory of the Derive', 'Formulary for a New Urbanism', and many previously untranslated texts, the book will also be strikingly illustrated by the images that were core to the Situationist project.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 157mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 404g
Release Year: 2010

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