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Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry
Vincent Kaufmann
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Description for Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry
Paperback. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Writer, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. In this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann places Debord's very hostility toward the inquisitive, biographical gaze at the center of an investigation into his subject's diverse output-from his earliest films to his landmark works of social theory and political provocation-and the poetic sensibility that informed both his work and his life.
Instead of providing a conventional day-to-day account of Debord's life, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within ... Read more
Writer, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. In this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann places Debord's very hostility toward the inquisitive, biographical gaze at the center of an investigation into his subject's diverse output-from his earliest films to his landmark works of social theory and political provocation-and the poetic sensibility that informed both his work and his life.
Instead of providing a conventional day-to-day account of Debord's life, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816644568
SKU
V9780816644568
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About Vincent Kaufmann
Vincent Kaufmann is professor of French language and literature at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Robert Bononno, a teacher and translator, lives in New York City.
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