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The Consul: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Volume II

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Consul: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Volume II
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ralph Rumney
Translated by Malcolm Imrie
SeriesContributions to the History of the Situationis...
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:125
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152
Category/GenreIndividual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780872863989
ClassificationsDewey:700.92
Audience
General
Illustrations 82 B&W photographs

Publishing Details

Publisher City Lights Books
Imprint City Lights Books
Publication Date 16 May 2002
Publication Country United States

Description

Throughout his adventurous life, Ralph Rumney was in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney's traveling companions - Guy Debord, Pegeen Guggenheim, Asger Jorn, Michele Berstein, Bernard Kops, Yves Klein, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, Felix Guattari, E.P. Thompson, Victor Brauner, and many others - are recalled in the oral history with sharp intelligence and dry wit. Profusely illustrated with Rumney's own photos, paintings, and collages and other documentary materials. "The Consul regains that magnificent freedom that a handful of people enjoyed and shared with artists, writers and others, in a world whose password was total, unfailing rejection of the world." -Judith Brouste, Art Press ". . . fine compendium of the most poetic of political writings, albeit still a partial measure for fans, followers and future revolutionaries awaiting the complete translations of the journal Situationist Internationale." -Publishers Weekly Ralph Rumney (1934 - 2002), was the sole member of the London Psychogeographical Society, a founding organization of the Situationist International (1957). He is the author of The Leaning Tower of Venice, a fabled psychogeographical exploration of that city. Malcolm Imrie is a literary agent and translator whose translations include Guy Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle and Jose Pierre's Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions 1928 - 1932.