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"The beautiful language of my century" : reinventing the language of contestation in postwar France, 1945-1968 / Tom McDonough.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonough, Tom, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--History--20th century.
- France.
- France--Intellectual life--20th century.
- France--Cultural policy--20th century.
- France--Politics and government--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 273 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "An October book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-09867-5
- 9786612098673
- 0-262-27943-6
- OCLC:
- 191930998
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