The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968

McDonough, Tom

ISBN 10: 0262134772 / ISBN 13: 9780262134774

Editore: The MIT Press, 2007

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Titolo: The Beautiful Language of My Century: ...

Casa editrice: The MIT Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2007

Legatura: Hardcover (Original Cloth)

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Riassunto:

"The Beautiful Language of My Century" describes the various forms of critical culture that culminated in the events of May 1968, and investigates the ways those forms have come down to us today.
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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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.