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Life on Sirius : the Situationist International and the exhibition after art

Title
Life on Sirius : the Situationist International and the exhibition after art / Daniel Birnbaum, Kim West.
Author
Birnbaum, Daniel, 1963-
Publication
Berlin : Sternberg Press ; [Stockholm] : Moderna Museet, ©2016.

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Additional Authors
West, Kim.
Description
72 pages : illustrations; 15 cm
Summary
Evolving out of the All the King's Horses series, a multinational project made up of seminars, exhibitions and events following the Situationist International and its network of related groups to various places in Europe, this new publication by Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West looks back at the Situationist confrontations with museums and its meaning today. Organized jointly with Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Life on Sirius traces a path beyond the Situationists negativity, anti-art techniques and slogans to outline a sustainable, micro-political alternative. At its center is the concept of play as a lever of instrumentalization. The Situationists were arguably the last and most influential avant-garde movement of the European postwar era. The Situationist International, the hub of the movement that developed several famous concepts and methods in the 1950s and 1960s aimed at transcending art and tearing down established culture continues to be influential on contemporary art and thinking today.
Subject
  • Bernstein, Michèle
  • Internationale situationniste > History
  • Internationale situationniste
  • Situationistische Internationale
  • 1900-1999
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Europe > History > 20th century
  • 20.02 philosophy and theory of the art sciences
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
  • Europe
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9783956791987
  • 3956791983
LCCN
9783956791987
OCLC
  • ocn971479516
  • 971479516
  • SCSB-8784933
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library