Bitter Victory: The Art and Politics of the Situationist International
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Bitter Victory, The Art and Politics of the Situationist International (1989) is an essay by Peter Wollen.
Incipit:
- "De Sade liberated from the Bastille in 1789, Baudelaire on the barricades in 1848, Courbet tearing down the Vendome Column in 1870-French political history is distinguished by a series of glorious and legendary moments that serve to celebrate the convergence of popular revolution with art in revolt. In the twentieth century avant-garde artistic movements took up the banner of revolution consciously and enduringly. The political career of Andre Breton and the surrealists began with their manifestos against the Moroccan war (the Riff war) in 1925 and persisted through to the "Manifesto of the 121," which Breton signed in 1960 six years before his death, denouncing the Algerian war and justifying resistance. In May 1968 the same emblematic role was enacted once again by the militants of the Situationist International (SI)."
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Bitter Victory: The Art and Politics of the Situationist International, published in Elisabeth Sussman (1989) On the passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in Time: The Situationist International 1957-1972
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