Edward John Matthews

Arts and Politics of the Situationist International 1957-1972 (eBook, ePUB)

Situating the Situationists

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arts and Politics of the Situationist International contextualizes the SI within a comprehensive aesthetic and theoretical framework that integrates its concepts and practical activities with previous critical thinkers, political activists, artists, and poets. The SI belongs to a history of radical gestures and cultural practices concerned with re-imagining everyday life and overcoming alienation. This book regards the SI as a critical interdisciplinary endeavor in the history of consciousness, particularly as a moment in an ongoing western-European trajectory of aesthetic negation dating back to the early nineteenth century. The chapters search for origins of the SI in French Symbolist poetry, Dada and Surrealism, Hegelian-Marxism, and Lefebvrian social theory in an effort to provide a clearly-defined 'something' out of which the SI developed as an increasingly radical collective of artists, writers, and theorists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793647092
• Artikelnr.: 62601864

Autorenporträt

Edward John Matthews teaches at Fanshawe College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: French Symbolist Strategies in SI Aesthetic Practices
Chapter Two: Dada and Surrealist Strategies in SI Artistic Practices
Chapter Three: Hegelian-Marxism in SI Political Theory
Chapter Four: Urbanism in SI Social Theory
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author