List of Figures
Series Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Lessons in Failure
Excursus I: The Society of the Spectacle
Excursus II: Constructed Situations
Reconstructing Situations
1. Surviving History: A Situationist Archive
2. Industrial Painting: Towards a Surplus of Life
3. Destruktion af RSG-6: The Latest Avant-Garde
4. Consuming the Spectacle: The Watts Riot and a New
Proletariat
5. Situationist Radical Subjectivity and Photo-Graffiti
6. The Situation of Women
Coda: Learning from the SI
Notes
Index
Frances Stracey (1963-2009) is the author of Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International (Pluto, 2014). She was Senior Lecturer in the History of Art Department, University College London.
'Frances Stracey was an original and committed interpreter of the
Situationist International, who saw their work not just as art
history but as contributing to an ongoing challenge to commodified
life, down into our own times'
*McKenzie Wark, author of The Beach Beneath the Street*
'The most penetrating inquiry into Situationist strategy yet to
appear'
*Times Higher Education*
'Fuelled by her remarkable insights into the work of the image in
an image-culture, Frances Stracey offers a ground-breaking and
timely account of Situationist 'situations'. Not only does she
restore a place for women as radical subjects within the movement
but she fearlessly shows us what is at stake in living such a
project now'
*Briony Fer, Professor of Art History, University College
London*
'Stracey returns the SI to a living tradition of critique and
negation in art. It is her work on women in the SI and the debate
on gender and class, identity and the universal, though, that
defines her investigation of the 'situation''
*Professor John Roberts, author of The Art of Interruption:
Realism, Photography and the Everyday*
'Challenging the prevalent woolly and dehistoricised readings,
Frances Stracey advances a powerful and incisive reconstruction of
SI practice'
*Gail Day is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of
Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and author of
Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory*
'Stracey does not reduce the Situationist movement to a form of art
praxis or media theory. She takes the Situtationist's claim to have
developed a modern approach to revolution seriously and focuses on
the 'construction of situations' as a practical alternative to the
spectacle. She addresses the difficult problem of assessing what
parts of the Situationist legacy may still inspire contemporary
critical cultural forms'
*Anselm Jappe, author of Guy Debord*
Ask a Question About this Product More... |