Arts and Politics of the Situationist International 1957–1972

Situating the Situationists

Edward John Matthews (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4708-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Edward John Matthews teaches philosophy, writing, and communications at the School for Language and Liberal Studies at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, Canada, and is a part-time lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 229 mm
Gewicht	617 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-7936-4708-9 / 1793647089
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4708-5 / 9781793647085
Zustand	Neuware