The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968 (October Books)
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, 2007
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- Title
- The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968 (October Books)
- Author
- Mcdonough, Tom
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262134772
- ISBN 13
- 9780262134774
- Edition
- 1st Edition
McDonough explores the montage practice developed by Guy Debord and his situationist colleagues under the name of detournement and its expression in the later fifties as a form of cultural theft. He addresses the influence of colonialism on these practices, examining a 1961 exhibit of torn posters of the Algerian War ("La France dechiree"), Godard's early film Le Petit Soldat, and Christo's Project for a Temporary Wall of Steel Drums. He discusses the French left's adoption in the mid-sixties of the "end of art" as a theoretical position and describes the leftist idea of the fete as a Rabelaisian and revolutionary upwelling of everything that is low.
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About the Author
William McHenry is Associate Professor, ManagementDepartment, the University of Akron. He isalso a member of the Mosaic Group, which hasbeen conducting research on the global diffusion ofthe Internet since 1995.
Thomas F. McDonough is Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University.
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