The game of war : the life and death of Guy Debord /
Hussey, Andrew,
The game of war : the life and death of Guy Debord / Andrew Hussey. - x, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-405) and index.
"Since his death in 1994 (when he put a bullet through his heart in his lonely farmhouse) Guy Debord has been hailed as one of the key thinkers of the age. In Britain and the United States, his theories on the 'spectacle' of modern life were simultaneously hailed as deadly truths by underground subversives and accorded the highest academic prestige. In the same way, the Situationist International (SI), a volatile group of artists, revolutionaries, and intellectuals which Debord led through the 1950s and 1960s, is considered to be the most important art movement since Dada and the Surrealists." "This biography is an appraisal of a lone and defiant figure whose story both follows and, at one historic moment in 1968, appears to lead the drift of art and politics in post-war Paris. 'It could almost be believed that I was the only person to have loved Paris, ' Debord said. Then, almost with a shrug, 'But no one has twice raised Paris to revolt.'"--Jacket. "Since his death in 1994 (when he put a bullet through his heart in his lonely farmhouse) Guy Debord has been hailed as one of the key thinkers of the age. In Britain and the United States, his theories on the 'spectacle' of modern life were simultaneously hailed as deadly truths by underground subversives and accorded the highest academic prestige. In the same way, the Situationist International (SI), a volatile group of artists, revolutionaries, and intellectuals which Debord led through the 1950s and 1960s, is considered to be the most important art movement since Dada and the Surrealists." "This biography is an appraisal of a lone and defiant figure whose story both follows and, at one historic moment in 1968, appears to lead the drift of art and politics in post-war Paris. 'It could almost be believed that I was the only person to have loved Paris,' Debord said. Then, almost with a shrug, 'But no one has twice raised Paris to revolt.'"--BOOK JACKET.
022404348X 9780224043489
2001536018
Debord, Guy, 1931-1994
Radicals--France--Biography
HN440.R3 / H87 2001
303.484092
The game of war : the life and death of Guy Debord / Andrew Hussey. - x, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-405) and index.
"Since his death in 1994 (when he put a bullet through his heart in his lonely farmhouse) Guy Debord has been hailed as one of the key thinkers of the age. In Britain and the United States, his theories on the 'spectacle' of modern life were simultaneously hailed as deadly truths by underground subversives and accorded the highest academic prestige. In the same way, the Situationist International (SI), a volatile group of artists, revolutionaries, and intellectuals which Debord led through the 1950s and 1960s, is considered to be the most important art movement since Dada and the Surrealists." "This biography is an appraisal of a lone and defiant figure whose story both follows and, at one historic moment in 1968, appears to lead the drift of art and politics in post-war Paris. 'It could almost be believed that I was the only person to have loved Paris, ' Debord said. Then, almost with a shrug, 'But no one has twice raised Paris to revolt.'"--Jacket. "Since his death in 1994 (when he put a bullet through his heart in his lonely farmhouse) Guy Debord has been hailed as one of the key thinkers of the age. In Britain and the United States, his theories on the 'spectacle' of modern life were simultaneously hailed as deadly truths by underground subversives and accorded the highest academic prestige. In the same way, the Situationist International (SI), a volatile group of artists, revolutionaries, and intellectuals which Debord led through the 1950s and 1960s, is considered to be the most important art movement since Dada and the Surrealists." "This biography is an appraisal of a lone and defiant figure whose story both follows and, at one historic moment in 1968, appears to lead the drift of art and politics in post-war Paris. 'It could almost be believed that I was the only person to have loved Paris,' Debord said. Then, almost with a shrug, 'But no one has twice raised Paris to revolt.'"--BOOK JACKET.
022404348X 9780224043489
2001536018
Debord, Guy, 1931-1994
Radicals--France--Biography
HN440.R3 / H87 2001
303.484092