Author : Frances Stracey
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745335261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)
Book Synopsis Constructed Situations by : Frances Stracey
Download or read book Constructed Situations written by Frances Stracey and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Situationist International has been an inspiration for generations of revolutionary activists and artists. This is no less the case today, with new waves of anti-capitalist protest deploying political strategies of aesthetic disruption pioneered by the Situationists. But how are we to understand their influence rigourously? This book is an attempt to answer this question through investigating the idea from which the Situationists took their name: the constructed situation. Beginning with a deep philosophical genealogy, Stracey methodically examines the artist's development and realisations through a constellation of extraordinary case studies. Finally, on this basis, she considers the Situationist's legacy afresh. No book has attempted this before. The result is a radically new approach to the Situationist International. The outcome of many years of dedicated research, Constructed Situations consolidates Stracey's groundbreaking studies on the Situationist International and finally exposes their framework, which she was only able to formulate in the final years of her life.