[DOC] Cubanisms: A Look at Cuba through Art and Words by Pedro Garciacute;a-Menocal in Arts-Photography

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This book tells; for the first time; the story of the Situationist Internationalrsquo;s influence and afterlives in Britain; where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the culmination of the twentieth century avant-garde tradition mdash; as the true successor of Dada and Surrealism. Its grand ambition was not unfounded. Though it dissolved in 1972; generations of artists and writers; theorists and provocateurs; punks and psychogeographers have continued its effort to confront and contest the lsquo;society of the spectacle.rsquo; This book constructs a long cultural history; beginning in the interwar period with the arrival of Surrealism to Britain; moving through the countercultures of the 1950s and 1960s; and finally surveying the directions in which Situationist theory and practice are being taken today. It combines agile historicism with close readings of a vast range of archival and newly excavated materials; including newspaper reports; underground pamphlets; Psychogeographical films; and experimental novels. It brings to light an overlooked but ferociously productive period of British avant-garde practice; and demonstrates how this subterranean activity helps us to understand postwar culture; late modernism; and the complex internationalization of the avant-garde. As popular and academic interest in the Situationists grows; this book offers an important contribution to the international history of the avant-garde and Surrealism. It will prove a valuable resource for researchers and students of English and Comparative Literature; Modernism and the Avant-Gardes; Twentieth Century and Contemporary History; Cultural Studies; Art History; and Political Aesthetics.