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The Situationist International in Britain - Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Gardes (Paperback)
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The Situationist International in Britain - Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Gardes (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist
International's influence and afterlives in Britain, where its
radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted.
The Situationist International presented itself as the culmination
of the twentieth century avant-garde tradition - as the true
successor of Dada and Surrealism. Its grand ambition was not
unfounded. Though it dissolved in 1972, generations of artists and
writers, theorists and provocateurs, punks and psychogeographers
have continued its effort to confront and contest the 'society of
the spectacle.' This book constructs a long cultural history,
beginning in the interwar period with the arrival of Surrealism to
Britain, moving through the countercultures of the 1950s and 1960s,
and finally surveying the directions in which Situationist theory
and practice are being taken today. It combines agile historicism
with close readings of a vast range of archival and newly excavated
materials, including newspaper reports, underground pamphlets,
Psychogeographical films, and experimental novels. It brings to
light an overlooked but ferociously productive period of British
avant-garde practice, and demonstrates how this subterranean
activity helps us to understand postwar culture, late modernism,
and the complex internationalization of the avant-garde. As popular
and academic interest in the Situationists grows, this book offers
an important contribution to the international history of the
avant-garde and Surrealism. It will prove a valuable resource for
researchers and students of English and Comparative Literature,
Modernism and the Avant-Gardes, Twentieth Century and Contemporary
History, Cultural Studies, Art History, and Political Aesthetics.
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