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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968376603321

Autore

McDonough Tom <1969->

Titolo

"The beautiful language of my century" : reinventing the language of contestation in postwar France, 1945-1968 / / Tom McDonough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-09867-5

9786612098673

0-262-27943-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

273 p. : ill

Disciplina

944.082

Soggetti

France History 20th century

France Intellectual life 20th century

France Cultural policy 20th century

France Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An October book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1  The Language of Negation -- 2  1961: Algeria and the Politics of DÉCOLLAGE -- 3  The Reciprocal Readymade, or, Art on the Barricades -- 4  Killing Property: On Festival and Revolutionary Nihilism -- 5 No Ghost -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How culture became a field of struggle over meaning in France: the appropriation of elements from advertising, journalism, and other sources to serve political ends in art, film, and the activities of the French left, culminating in the upheavals of May 1968.